Detection of distinct MERS-Coronavirus strains in dromedary camels from Kenya, 2017

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Kiambi, Stella ^a   Corman, Victor M ^b,c   Sitawa, Rina ^d   Githinji, Jane ^d   Ngoci, James ^d   Ozomata, Abdullahi S ^e   Gardner, Emma ^a   von Dobschuetz, Sophie ^a   Morzaria, Subhash ^a   Kimutai, Joshua ^a   Schroeder, Simon ^b   Njagi, Obadiah ^d   Simpkin, Piers ^a   Rugalema, Gabriel ^a   Tadesse, Zelalem ^a   Lubroth, Juan ^a   Makonnen, Yilma ^a   Drosten, Christian ^b,c   Müller, Marcel A ^b,c   Fasina, Folorunso O ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^b BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Directorate of Veterinary Services   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DROMEDARY; HUMAN; KENYA; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOSE; PHENOTYPE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; KENYA; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NOSE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85057231006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41426-018-0193-z     Document Type: Letter

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