Review Article: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Middle East respiratory syndrome is caused by a coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and that virus has similarities to the SARS coronavirus. Up to now globally, 836 laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV cases have been reported by the WHO since April 2012 including at least 288 (34%) related deaths. Most cases have been notified from several countries in the Arabian peninsula with occasional exportation through infected travelers. The infection may be asymptomatic or can lead to a severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with septic shock and multiple organ failure. MERS may start with fever, cough, chills, sore throat, myalgias and arthralgias. A third complains of vomiting and diarrhea. Almost half of the patients develop a pneumonia and about 10% an ARDS. About three-quarters of the cases are suffering from an underlying disease (diabetes mellitus, renal failure, cardiovascular diseases, malignancies, COPD). Two third of the infected were males. The mean age of all patients was 49 years. The average incubation period was 5 days. All cases that occurred outside the Middle East, were travelers from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It is assumed that the primary host organisms for MERS-CoV are bats, which transfer the virus to dromedary camels. Humans are infected by nose and eye secretion, stool, urine, milk and meat of camels. Up to now no safe antiviral therapy has been available. Strict hygiene minimizes the risk of infection.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".