Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1012-1015

  Memish, Ziad A ^a,b,c   Cotten, Matthew ^d   Meyer, Benjamin ^e   Watson, Simon J ^d   Alsahafi, Abdullah J ^f   Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A ^b,c   Corman, Victor Max ^e   Sieberg, Andrea ^e   Makhdoom, Hatem Q ^g   Assiri, Abdullah ^c   Al Masri, Malaki ^c   Aldabbagh, Souhaib ^e   Bosch, Berend Jan ^h   Beer, Martin ⁱ   Müller, Marcel A ^e   Kellam, Paul ^d,j   Drosten, Christian ^e  

^a ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f Jeddah Regional Laboratory ^*

^g Jeddah Regional Laboratory   (Saudi Arabia)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Friedrich Loeffler lnstitut   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEL; CASE REPORT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROMEDARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 84899938536     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.140402     Document Type: Article

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