Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea, 2015
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MERSKorea2015_list.RdThis dataset, MERSKorea2015_list, is a list containing two data frames with information collected during the first weeks of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea in 2015. The data was initially gathered by the Epidemic Intelligence group at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Usage
data(MERSKorea2015_list)Format
A list of 2 elements:
- linelist
A data frame with 162 observations and 15 variables:
- id
Case identifier (character)
- age
Age of the individual (integer)
- age_class
Age class of the individual (character)
- sex
Sex of the individual (factor with 2 levels)
- place_infect
Place of infection (factor with 2 levels)
- reporting_ctry
Reporting country (factor with 2 levels)
- loc_hosp
Location or hospital (factor with 13 levels)
- dt_onset
Date of symptom onset (Date)
- dt_report
Date of case report (Date)
- week_report
Week of report (factor with 5 levels)
- dt_start_exp
Start date of exposure (Date)
- dt_end_exp
End date of exposure (Date)
- dt_diag
Date of diagnosis (Date)
- outcome
Outcome of the case (factor with 2 levels)
- dt_death
Date of death, if applicable (Date)
- contacts
A data frame with 98 observations and 4 variables:
- from
ID of the source case (character)
- to
ID of the contact case (character)
- exposure
Type of exposure (factor with 5 levels)
- diff_dt_onset
Difference in days between onset dates (integer)
Details
The dataset name has been kept as 'MERSKorea2015_list' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the SouthKoreAPIs package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'list' indicates that the object is a list containing multiple related data frames. The original content has not been modified in any way.