Systematic, active surveillance for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in camels in Egypt

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ali, Mohamed A ^a   Shehata, Mahmoud M ^a   Gomaa, Mokhtar R ^a   Kandeil, Ahmed ^a   El Shesheny, Rabeh ^a   Kayed, Ahmed S ^a   El Taweel, Ahmed N ^a   Atea, Mohamed ^b   Hassan, Nagla ^b   Bagato, Ola ^a   Moatasim, Yassmin ^a   Mahmoud, Sara H ^a   Kutkat, Omnia ^a   Maatouq, Asmaa M ^a   Osman, Ahmed ^c   McKenzie, Pamela P ^d   Webby, Richard J ^d   Kayali, Ghazi ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^c Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f Human Link   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Camel; Egypt; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EGYPT; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARANTINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY FLUID; BOVINE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NOSE MUCOSA; RECTUM; SEROLOGY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BODY FLUIDS; CAMELUS; CATTLE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NASAL MUCOSA; RECTUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 85008481797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2016.130     Document Type: Article

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