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

A. Memish, Ziad; Cotten, Matthew; Meyer, Benjamin; J. Watson, Simon; J. Alsahafi, Abdullah; A. Al Rabeeah, Abdullah; M. Corman, Victor; Sieberg, Andrea; Q. Makhdoom, Hatem; M. Assiri, Abdullah; Al Masri, Malaki; Aldabbagh, Souhaib; Bosch, Berend‐Jan; Beer, Martin; A. Müller, Marcel; Kellam, Paul; Drosten, Christian

doi:10.3201/eid2006.140402

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

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Mar 20, 2014

Authors:

Ziad A. Memish

Matthew Cotten

Benjamin Meyer

Abstract

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 trans...

Subject

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Virology

Coronavirus

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