State of knowledge and data gaps of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in humans

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Volumn 5, Issue Outbreaks, 2013, Pages

  Abdallat, Mohammad Mousa ^a   Abroug, Fekri ^b   Al Dhahry, Said H S ^c   Alhajri, Mohd Mohd ^d   Al Hakeem, Rafat ^e   Al Hosani, Farida Ismail ^f   Al Qasrawi, Sultan Mohammed Abdalla ^a   Al Romaihi, Hamad Eid ^d   Assiri, Abdullah ^e   Baillie, J Kenneth ^g   Ben Embarek, Peter Karim ^h   Ben Salah, Afif ⁱ   Blümel, Benjamin ^j   Briese, Thomas ^k   Buchholz, Udo ^j   Cognat, Sebastien Bruno Francois ^h   Defang, Gabriel N ^l   De La Rocque, Stéphane ^h   Donatelli, Isabella ^m   Drosten, Christian ⁿ   Drury, Patrick Anthony ^h   Eremin, Sergey Romualdovich ^h   Ferguson, Neil M ^o   Fontanet, Arnaud ^p   Formenty, Pierre B H ^h   Fouchier, Ron A M ^q   Gao, Christine Qiuhan ^r   Garcia, Erika ^h   Gerber, Susan I ^s   Guery, Benoît ^t   Haagmans, Bart L ^q   Haddadin, Aktham Jeries ^a   Hardiman, Maxwell Charles ^h   Hensley, Lisa E ^u   Hugonnet, Stéphane Alexandre Louis ^h   Hui, David S C ^v   Isla, Nicolas ^h   Karesh, William B ^w   Koopmans, Marion ^x   Kuehne, Anna ^j   Lipkin, W Ian ^y   Mafi, Ali R ^h   Malik, Mamunur ^h   Manuguerra, Jean Claude ^p   Memish, Ziad ^e   Mounts, Anthony Wayne ^h   Mumford, Elizabeth ^h   Opoka, Langoya ^h   Osterhaus, Ab ^q   John Oxenford, Christopher ^h   Pang, Junxiong ^z   Pebody, Richard ^aa   Peiris, J S Malik ^ab   Jay Plotkin, Bruce ^h   Poumerol, Gilles ^h   Reusken, Chantal ^x   Rezza, Giovanni ^m   Roth, Cathy Ellen ^h   Shindo, Nahoko ^h   Shumate, Alice M ^ac   Siwula, Molly ^h   Slim, Amine ^ad   Smallwood, Catherine ^h   van der Werf, Sylvie ^p   Van Kerkhove, Maria D ^o   Zambon, Maria ^aa   more..

^a Ministry of Health   (Jordan)

^b FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^c HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^d Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Health Authority Abu Dhabi   (United Arab Emirates)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^j ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^k Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^l US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^m ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^o IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^q ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^r Biodefence Center   (Singapore)

^s NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^t LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^u NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^v CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^w ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^x NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^y Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^z NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^aa PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^ac CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^ad CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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