Absence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Bactrian camels in the West Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China: Surveillance study results from July 2015

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Renqiang ^a   Wen, Zhiyuan ^a   Wang, Jinling ^b   Ge, Jinying ^a   Chen, Hualan ^a   Bu, Zhigao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTRIAN CAMEL; CHINA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DROMEDARY; GENOME; HERD; HUMAN; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; VESICULOVIRUS; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEALTH SURVEY; PHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84948985435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2015.73     Document Type: Letter

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