Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1819-1823

  Memish, Ziad A ^a   Mishra, Nischay ^b   Olival, Kevin J ^c   Fagbo, Shamsudeen F ^a   Kapoor, Vishal ^b   Epstein, Jonathan H ^c   AlHakeem, Rafat ^a   Al Asmari, Mushabab ^a   Islam, Ariful ^d   Kapoor, Amit ^b   Briese, Thomas ^b   Daszak, Peter ^c   Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A ^a   Lipkin, W Ian ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^d EcoHealth Alliance   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CORONAVIRUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUNCH BIOPSY; SAUDI ARABIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAPHOZOUS PERFORATUS;

BATS; CORONAVIRUS; MERS COV; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENES, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84884233679     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1911.131172     Document Type: Article

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