Reliable typing of MERS-CoV variants with a small genome fragment

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-87

  Smits, Saskia L ^a,b   Raj, V Stalin ^a   Pas, Suzan D ^a   Reusken, Chantal B E M ^a   Mohran, Khaled ^c,d   Farag, Elmoubasher A B A ^e   Al Romaihi, Hamad E ^e   AlHajri, Mohd M ^e   Haagmans, Bart L ^a   Koopmans, Marion P ^a,f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Viroclinics Biosciences BV   (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Environment   (Qatar)

^d ANIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^e Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Camel; Diversity; Human; MERS CoV; Surveillance; Type

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMEL; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TYPING; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84923325784     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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