Infectious MERS-CoV isolated from a mildly ill patient, Saudi Arabia

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Al Abdely, Hail M ^a   Midgley, Claire M ^c   Alkhamis, Abdulrahim M ^a   Abedi, Glen R ^c   Tamin, Azaibi ^c   Binder, Alison M ^c   Alanazi, Khalid ^a   Lu, Xiaoyan ^c   Abdalla, Osman ^a   Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K ^c   Mohammed, Mutaz ^a   Queen, Krista ^c   Algarni, Homoud S ^a   Li, Yan ^c   Trivedi, Suvang ^c   Algwizani, Abdullah ^b   Alhakeem, Raafat F ^a   Thornburg, Natalie J ^c   Tong, Suxiang ^c   Ghazal, Sameeh S ^b   Erdman, Dean D ^c   Assiri, Abdullah M ^a   Gerber, Susan I ^c   Watson, John T ^c   more..

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; MERS; Mild; Prolonged detection; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; OSELTAMIVIR;

ACUTELY ILL PATIENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; SAUDI ARABIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS ISOLATION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85053776371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofy111     Document Type: Article

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