Replicative capacity of MERS coronavirus in livestock cell lines

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 276-279

  Eckerle, Isabella ^a   Corman, Victor M ^a   Müller, Marcel A ^a   Lenk, Matthias ^b   Ulrich, Rainer G ^b   Drosten, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PENINSULA; CAMELS; CELL CULTURE; CORONAVIRUS; GOATS; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIVESTOCK; MERS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUSES; ZOONOSES; ZOONOSIS; ZOONOTIC;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CELL LINE; CORONAVIRUS; GOATS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MIDDLE EAST; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84892612772     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2002.131182     Document Type: Article

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