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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

Ziad A. Memish, Nischay Mishra, Kevin J. Olival, Shamsudeen F. Fagbo, Vishal Kapoor, Jonathan H. Epstein, Rafat AlHakeem, Mushabab Al Asmari, Ariful Islam, Amit Kapoor, …
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.19(11), pp.1819-1823
01/11/2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1911.131172
PMCID: PMC3837665
PMID: 24206838

Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
The source of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus remains unknown. Molecular investigation indicated that bats in Saudi Arabia are infected with several alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses. Virus from 1 bat showed 100% nucleotide identity to virus from the human index case-patient. Bats might play a role in human infection.
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