Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus quasispecies that include homologues of human isolates revealed through whole- genome analysis and virus cultured from dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Briese, Thomas ^a   Mishra, Nischay ^a   Jain, Komal ^a   Zalmout, Iyad S ^b   Jabado, Omar J ^c   Karesh, William B ^d   Daszak, Peter ^d   Mohammed, Osama B ^b   Alagaili, Abdulaziz N ^b,e   Ian Lipkin, W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e Saudi Wildlife Authority   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CORONAVIRUS; DROMEDARY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CAMEL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84903737162     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01146-14     Document Type: Article

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