Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) neutralising antibodies in a high-risk human population, Morocco, November 2017 to January 2018

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 24, Issue 48, 2019, Pages 1-8

  Abbad, Anass ^a,b   Perera, Ranawaka A P M ^c   Anga, Latifa ^a   Faouzi, Abdellah ^a   Minh, Nhu Nguyen Tran ^d   Malik, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman ^d   Iounes, Nadia ^b   Maaroufi, Abderrahmane ^a,d   van Kerkhove, Maria D ^d   Peiris, Malik ^c,e   Nourlil, Jalal ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES BEN M SIK   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ABATTOIR WORKER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEL MILK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DROMEDARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HERD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MOROCCO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; VIROLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OCCUPATION; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VERY ELDERLY; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOROCCO; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85076014631     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.48.1900244     Document Type: Article

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