Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): Bats or dromedary, which of them is responsible?;Le «syndrome respiratoire du Moyen-Orient» (MERS): qui est responsable, les chauves-souris ou le dromadaire?

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 69-73

  Chastel, C ^a  

^a NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Betacoronavirus; Chiroptera; Dromedary; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Transmission to humans

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPAIN; TICK; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; CAMELS; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CORONAVIRUS OC43, HUMAN; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN, CORONAVIRUS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84898827562     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13149-014-0333-1     Document Type: Review

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