MERS coronavirus: Diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission

Virology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mackay, Ian M ^a,b,c   Arden, Katherine E ^b  

^a Forensic Biology Laboratory   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; Diagnostics; Epidemiology; MERS; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BAT; CAMEL; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; JORDAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GLOBAL HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84951268718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12985-015-0439-5     Document Type: Review

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