Spread, circulation, and evolution of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cotten, Matthew ^a   Watson, Simon J ^a   Zumla, Alimuddin I ^b,c,d   Makhdoom, Hatem Q ^b   Palser, Anne L ^a   Ong, Swee Hoe ^a   Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A ^b   Alhakeem, Rafat F ^b   Assiri, Abdullah ^b   Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^e   Albarrak, Ali ^f   Barry, Mazin ^g   Shibl, Atef ^g   Alrabiah, Fahad A ^h   Hajjar, Sami ^h   Balkhy, Hanan H ⁱ   Flemban, Hesham ^f   Rambaut, Andrew ^j,k   Kellam, Paul ^a,c,d   Memish, Ziad A ^b,l  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Prince Sultan Military Medical City   (Saudi Arabia)

^g KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^h KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^j Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^l ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CORONAVIRUS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84903362072     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01062-13     Document Type: Article

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