Concerns about misinterpretation of recent scientific data implicating dromedary camels in epidemiology of middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS)

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Samara, Emad M ^a   Abdoun, Khalid A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DROMEDARY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIREMIA; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRIDAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 84908237829     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01430-14     Document Type: Editorial

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