Novel betacoronavirus in dromedaries of the Middle East, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 560-572

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^a   Wernery, Ulrich ^b   Wong, Emily Y M ^a   Tsang, Alan K L ^a   Johnson, Bobby ^b   Yip, Cyril C Y ^a   Lau, Candy C Y ^a   Sivakumar, Saritha ^b   Cai, Jian Piao ^a   Fan, Rachel Y Y ^a   Chan, Kwok Hung ^a   Mareena, Ringu ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN LIKE PROTEASE; HELICASE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLONING; CORONAVIRUS; CROSS REACTION; DROMEDARY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS LOAD; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84896448668     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2004.131769     Document Type: Article

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