Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

Julie Hand, Erica Billig Rose, Andrea Salinas, Xiaoyan Lu, Senthil Kumar K. Sakthivel, Eileen Schneider, John T. Watson

We describe an outbreak of severe respiratory illness associated with human coronavirus NL63 in a long-term care facility in Louisiana in November 2017. Six of 20 case-patients were hospitalized with pneumonia, and 3 of 20 died. Clinicians should consider human coronavirus NL63 for patients in similar settings with respiratory disease.

2018

Outbreak, coronavirus, long-term care facility, Respiratory Infections, Louisiana, USA

DOI: 10.3201/eid2410.180862

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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