Isolation of MERS coronavirus from dromedary camel, Qatar, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1339-1342

  Stalin Raj, V ^a   Farag, Elmoubasher A B A ^b   Reusken, Chantal B E M ^a   Lamers, Mart M ^a   Pas, Suzan D ^a   Voermans, Jolanda ^a   Smits, Saskia L ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   Al Mawlawi, Naema ^c   Al Romaihi, Hamad E ^b   Alhajri, Mohd M ^b   El Sayed, Ahmed M ^b   Mohran, Khaled A ^d   Ghobashy, Hazem ^d   Alhajri, Farhoud ^d   Al Thani, Mohamed ^b   Al Marri, Salih A ^b   El Maghraby, Mamdouh M ^d   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a   Haagmans, Bart L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

^c HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^d Ministry of Environment   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DROMEDARY; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE; MERS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOCAPSID GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; QATAR; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; CAMEL; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CAMELS; CELL LINE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QATAR; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84902277248     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2008.140663     Document Type: Article

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