Isolation and characterization of dromedary camel coronavirus UAE-HKU23 from dromedaries of the middle east: Minimal serological cross-reactivity between MERS coronavirus and dromedary camel coronavirus UAE-HKU23

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b,c   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b,c   Fan, Rachel Y Y ^b   Lau, Candy C Y ^b   Wong, Emily Y M ^b   Joseph, Sunitha ^d   Tsang, Alan K L ^b   Wernery, Renate ^d   Yip, Cyril C Y ^b   Tsang, Chi Ching ^b   Wernery, Ulrich ^d   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b,c  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Characterization; Coronavirus; Dromedary camel; Isolation

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BETACORONAVIRUS 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS REACTION; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROMEDARY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TUMOR CELL LINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CROSS REACTIONS; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84966318763     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17050691     Document Type: Article

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