with a diagnosis of stroke. On hospital day 6,fever developed, and a throat-swab specimen was obtained, which was negative for MERS-CoV.When pneumonia developed in the patient, MERSCoV was identified on repeat testing.No epidemiologic link between Patients A and B could be established.
Patient C, who had been undergoing long-term hemodialysis, was admitted to Hospital A on April 6 to the room adjacent to Patient A. He was still in that room on April 8, which was the day on which fever developed in Patient A. Fever developed in Patient C 3 days later.He underwent dialysis in the hospital’s outpatient hemodialysis unit twice after the onset of symptoms — on April 11 and April 13.