Possibility of nosocomial person-to-person transmission of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Published: November 2019

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