Acute middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in livestock dromedaries, Dubai, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1019-1022

  Wernery, Ulrich ^a   Corman, Victor M ^b,c   Wong, Emily Y M ^d   Tsang, Alan K L ^d   Muth, Doreen ^d   Lau, Susanna K P ^d   Khazanehdari, Kamal ^a   Zirkel, Florian ^b,c   Ali, Mansoor ^e   Nagy, Peter ^f   Juhasz, Jutka ^f   Wernery, Renate ^a   Joseph, Sunitha ^a   Syriac, Ginu ^a   Elizabeth, Shyna K ^a   Patteril, Nissy Annie Georgy ^a   Woo, Patrick C Y ^d   Drosten, Christian ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e Camel Hospital   (United Arab Emirates)

^f Emirates Industries for Camel Milk and Products   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DROMEDARY; DUBAI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPEN READING FRAME; SEROTYPE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENOME, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LIVESTOCK; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEROGROUP; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84928210388     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2106.150038     Document Type: Article

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