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Human Infection with MERS Coronavirus after Exposure to Infected Camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013
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Human Infection with MERS Coronavirus after Exposure to Infected Camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

Ziad A. Memish, Matthew Cotten, Benjamin Meyer, Simon J. Watson, Abdullah J. Alsahafi, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah, Victor Max Corman, Andrea Sieberg, Hatem Q. Makhdoom, Abdullah Assiri, …
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.20(6), pp.1012-1015
01/06/2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.140402
PMCID: PMC4036761
PMID: 24857749

Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
We investigated a case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after exposure to infected camels. Analysis of the whole human-derived virus and 15% of the camel-derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross-species transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV infection.
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