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Knowledge and practices of dentists regarding MERS-CoV

A cross-sectional survey in Saudi Arabia

Balgis O. Gaffar, Maha El Tantawi, Asim A. Al-Ansari, Adel S. AlAgl, Faraz A. Farooqi and Khalid M. Almas
Saudi Medical Journal July 2019, 40 (7) 714-720; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.7.24304
Balgis O. Gaffar
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, JMHPE
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Maha El Tantawi
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Asim A. Al-Ansari
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MDSc, DScD
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Adel S. AlAgl
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Faraz A. Farooqi
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid M. Almas
From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 40 no. 7 714-720
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.7.24304
PubMed 
31287133

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 27, 2019
  • Accepted June 6, 2019
  • Published online July 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Balgis O. Gaffar, MSc, JMHPE⇑,
  2. Maha El Tantawi, MSc, PhD,
  3. Asim A. Al-Ansari, MDSc, DScD,
  4. Adel S. AlAgl, DSc, ABP,
  5. Faraz A. Farooqi, MSc, MBA and
  6. Khalid M. Almas, FDSRCS, FRACDS
  1. From the Preventive Dental Sciences Department (Gaffar, El Tantawi, Al-Ansari, AlAgl, Almas), and from the Deanship of Academic Affairs (Farooqi), College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Balgis O. Gaffar, Dental Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bgosman{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-1887
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