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

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Memish, Ziad A. ; Cotten, Matthew ; Meyer, Benjamin ; Watson, Simon J. ; Alsahafi, Abdullah J. ; Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A. ; Corman, Victor Max ; Sieberg, Andrea ; Makhdoom, Hatem Q. ; Assiri, Abdullah ; Al Masri, Malaki ; Aldabbagh, Souhaib ; Bosch, Berend-Jan ; Beer, Martin ; Müller, Marcel A. ; Kellam, Paul ; Drosten, Christian
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Adult Animals Camelus Coronavirus Infections High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Male Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 20(6):1012-1015.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Saudi Arabia
• Location:
  Middle East
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1d549beef1c613c13af98a82ae00c83da991f44214c4dc5d4687b9bec81f2cbb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23362/cdc_23362_DS1.pdf
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