S
Sarah H. Alfaraj
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 22
Citations - 935
Sarah H. Alfaraj is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus & Asymptomatic. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 18 publications receiving 833 citations.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Infection During Pregnancy: Report of Two Cases & Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The first patient was a 29-year-old female at 6 weeks gestation and with no underlying medical conditions, asymptomatic and identified as part of the contact tracing of her mother, a positive MERS-CoV patient, and subsequently delivered a healthy infant at term.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection during pregnancy: Report of two cases & review of the literature
TL;DR: The first patient was a 29-year-old female (gravida 2, para 1) at 6 weeks gestation and with no underlying medical conditions as mentioned in this paper, who was asymptomatic and identified as part of the contact tracing of her mother.
Journal ArticleDOI
Clinical predictors of mortality of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: A cohort study.
Sarah H. Alfaraj,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,Ayed Y. Assiri,Nojoom A. Alzahrani,Amal A. Alanazi,Ziad A. Memish +6 more
TL;DR: A retrospective analysis of symptomatic admitted patients to a large tertiary MERS-CoV center in Saudi Arabia over the period from April 2014 to March 2018 found that the use of corticosteroid and CRRT were the most significant predictors of mortality.
Clinical predictors of mortality of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: A cohort study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined clinical predictors of mortality of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) infection and found that the use of interferon-ribavirin was not associated with mortality in this cohort.
Journal ArticleDOI
Predictors of MERS-CoV infection: A large case control study of patients presenting with ILI at a MERS-CoV referral hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Hamzah A. Mohd,Ziad A. Memish,Sarah H. Alfaraj,Donna K. McClish,Talal A. Altuwaijri,Marzouqah S. Alanazi,Saleh A. Aloqiel,Ahmed M. Alenzi,Fahad Bafaqeeh,Amal M. Mohamed,Kamel Aldosari,Sameeh Ghazal +11 more
TL;DR: None of the reported MERS-CoV presenting symptoms was significantly associated with being infected with MERS, and out of all the investigations WBC, neutrophil counts, AST and ALT values have some predictive utility.