Assessing the Detection of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus IgG in Suspected and Proven Cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection

Viral Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 649-653

  Alhetheel, Abdulkarim ^a,b   Altalhi, Haifa ^a,b   Albarrag, Ahmed ^a,b   Shakoor, Zahid ^a,b   Mohamed, Deqa ^a   El Hazmi, Malak ^a,b   Somily, Ali ^a,b   Barry, Mazin ^a,b   Bakhrebah, Muhammed ^c   Nassar, Majed ^c  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

MERS diagnostic testing; MERS CoV RNA; MERS CoV IgG

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; BLOOD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA B VIRUS; PROGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 85032881742     PISSN: 08828245     EISSN: 15578976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vim.2017.0091     Document Type: Article

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