Exposures among MERS case-patients, Saudi Arabia, January–February 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2020-2022

  Alhakeem, Raafat F ^a   Midgley, Claire M ^b   Assiri, Abdullah M ^a   Alessa, Mohammed ^a   Al Hawaj, Hassan ^a   Bin Saeed, Abdulaziz ^a   Almasri, Malak M ^a   Lu, Xiaoyan ^b   Abedi, Glen R ^b   Abdalla, Osman ^a   Mohammed, Mutaz ^a   Algarni, Homoud S ^a   Al Abdely, Hail M ^a   Alsharef, Ali Abraheem ^a   Nooh, Randa ^a   Erdman, Dean D ^b   Gerber, Susan I ^b   Watson, John T ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OPEN READING FRAME; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SEASON; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOME, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEASONS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84992058764     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2211.161042     Document Type: Letter

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