Mers coronavirus in dromedary camel herd, Saudi Arabia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1231-1234

  Hemida, Maged G ^a,b   Chu, Daniel K W ^c   Poon, Leo L M ^c   Perera, Ranawaka A P M ^c   Alhammadi, Mohammad A ^a   Ng, Hoi Yee ^c   Siu, Lewis Y ^c   Guan, Yi ^c   Alnaeem, Abdelmohsen ^a   Peiris, Malik ^c  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORONAVIRUS; COUGHING; DROMEDARY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; LOSS OF APPETITE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROPREVALENCE; SNEEZING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84901443765     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2007.140571     Document Type: Article

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