Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in dromedary camels: An outbreak investigation

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 140-145

  Haagmans, Bart L ^a   Al Dhahiry, Said H S ^b   Reusken, Chantal B E M ^c   Raj, V Stalin ^a   Galiano, Monica ^d   Myers, Richard ^d   Godeke, Gert Jan ^c   Jonges, Marcel ^c   Farag, Elmoubasher ^e   Diab, Ayman ^e   Ghobashy, Hazem ^e   Alhajri, Farhoud ^e   Al Thani, Mohamed ^e   Al Marri, Salih A ^e   Al Romaihi, Hamad E ^e   Al Khal, Abdullatif ^e   Bermingham, Alison ^d   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   AlHajri, Mohd M ^e   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE CARRIER; DROMEDARY; E GENE; EPIDEMIC; GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; QATAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; ADULT; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QATAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84892538696     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70690-X     Document Type: Article

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