Antibodies against MERS coronavirus in dromedary camels, Kenya, 1992-2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1319-1322

  Corman, Victor M ^a   Jores, Joerg ^b   Meyer, Benjamin ^a   Younan, Mario ^c   Liljander, Anne ^b   Said, Mohammed Y ^b   Gluecks, Ilona ^d   Lattwein, Erik ^e   Bosch, Berend Jan ^f   Drexler, Jan Felix ^a   Bornstein, Set ^g   Drosten, Christian ^a   Müller, Marcel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Vétérinaires Sans Frontières ^*  (Germany)

^d Kenya Programme   (Kenya)

^e Institute of Experimental Immunology   (Germany)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORONAVIRUS; DROMEDARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KENYA; MERS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; KENYA; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84902251933     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2008.140596     Document Type: Article

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