Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

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Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013
 
Memish, Ziad A.; Cotten, Matthew; Meyer, Benjamin; Watson, Simon J.; Alsahafi, Abdullah J.; Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A.; Corman, Victor Max; Sieberg, Andrea; Makhdoom, Hatem Q.; Assiri, Abdullah; Al Masri, Malaki; Aldabbagh, Souhaib; Bosch, Berend Jan; Beer, Martin; Müller, Marcel A.; Kellam, Paul; Drosten, Christian
(2014) Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 20, issue 6, pp. 1012 - 1015
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Abstract
We investigated a case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after exposure to infected camels. Analysis of the whole human-derived virus and 15% of the camel-derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross-species transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV ... read more
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Keywords: MERS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.140402
ISSN: 1080-6040
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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