Serologic assessment of possibility for MERS-CoV infection in equids

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 181-182

  Meyer, Benjamin ^a   García Bocanegra, Ignacio ^b   Wernery, Ulrich ^c   Wernery, Renate ^c   Sieberg, Andrea ^a   Müller, Marcel A ^a   Drexler, Jan Felix ^a   Drosten, Christian ^a   Eckerle, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DONKEY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MULE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; VERO CELL LINE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; VERO CELLS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84919650564     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2101.141342     Document Type: Letter

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