Presence of antibodies but no evidence for circulation of MERS-CoV in dromedaries on the Canary Islands, 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 37, 2015, Pages

  Gutiérrez, Carlos ^a   Tejedor Junco, M T ^a   Gonzalez M ^a   Lattwein, E ^b   Renneker, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Institute of Experimental Immunology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROMEDARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPAIN; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAMEL; CORONAVIRIDAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAMELS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 84942163551     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.37.30019     Document Type: Article

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