Enzootic patterns of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in imported African and local Arabian dromedary camels: a prospective genomic study

The Lancet Planetary Health

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2019, Pages e521-e528

  El Kafrawy, Sherif A ^a   Corman, Victor M ^c,d   Tolah, Ahmed M ^a   Al Masaudi, Saad B ^a   Hassan, Ahmed M ^a   Müller, Marcel A ^c,d,e   Bleicker, Tobias ^c,d   Harakeh, Steve M ^a   Alzahrani, Abdulrahman A ^f   Alsaaidi, Ghaleb A ^f   Alagili, Abdulaziz N ^g   Hashem, Anwar M ^a,b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^h,i   Drosten, Christian ^c,d   Azhar, Esam I ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Aziz University   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^e I M SECHENOV FIRST MOSCOW STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f Institute of Virology ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^g KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CLADISTICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DROMEDARY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; ZOONOSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85076532585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25425196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30243-8     Document Type: Article

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