Reply to “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

  Alagaili, Abdulaziz N ^a   Briese, Thomas ^b   Karesh, William B ^c   Daszak, Peter ^c   Ian Lipkin, W ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DROMEDARY; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEAT; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAW MEAT; SEROLOGY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; 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: 84908250862     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01482-14     Document Type: Article

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