High proportion of MERS-CoV shedding dromedaries at slaughterhouse with a potential epidemiological link to human cases, Qatar 2014

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Farag, Elmoubasher A B A ^a   Reusken, Chantal B E M ^b   Haagmans, Bart L ^a   Mohran, Khaled A ^c   Raj, V Stalin ^b   Pas, Suzan D ^b   Voermans, Jolanda ^b   Smits, Saskia L ^b   Godeke, Gert Jan ^d   Al Hajri, Mohd M ^a   Alhajri, Farhoud H ^c   Al Romaihi, Hamad E ^a   Ghobashy, Hazem ^c   El Maghraby, Mamdouh M ^c   El Sayed, Ahmed M ^a   Al Thani, Mohamed H J ^a   Al Marri, Salih ^a   Koopmans, Marion P G ^b,d  

^a Supreme Council of Health   (Qatar)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Environment   (Qatar)

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

Author keywords

camels; MERS CoV; respiratory infections; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042575222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/IEE.V5.28305     Document Type: Article

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