MERS-CoV infection of alpaca in a region whereMERS-CoV is endemic

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1129-1131

  Reusken, Chantal B E M ^a   Schilp, Chrispijn ^b   Raj, V Stalin ^a   De Bruin, Erwin ^a   Kohl, Robert H G ^a   Farag, Elmoubasher A B A ^c   Haagmans, Bart L ^a   Al Romaihi, Hamad ^c   Le Grange, Francois ^b   Bosch, Berend Jan ^d   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation   (Qatar)

^c Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPACA; CAMEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DROMEDARY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SERODIAGNOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEW WORLD CAMELID; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84969157715     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2206.152113     Document Type: Letter

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