Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus experimental transmission using a pig model

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1342-1345

  Vergara Alert, J ^a   Raj, V S ^b   Munoz M ^a   Abad, F X ^a   Cordon I ^a   Haagmans, B L ^b   Bensaid, A ^a   Segales J ^c,d  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

emerging diseases; MERS coronavirus (MERS CoV); Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS); pig; transmission

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

AIR SAMPLING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; ID50 (INFECTIOUS); MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PORCINE MODEL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RNA EXTRACTION; SEROCONVERSION; SNEEZING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SWINE;

EID: 85021356961     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12668     Document Type: Article

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