Respiratory tract samples, viral load, and genome fraction yield in patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome.

A Memish, Ziad; A Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar; Q Makhdoom, Hatem; Assiri, Abdullah; F Alhakeem, Raafat; Albarrak, Ali; Alsubaie, Sarah; A Al-Rabeeah, Abdullah; H Hajomar, Waleed; Hussain, Raheela; M Kheyami, Ali; Almutairi, Abdullah; I Azhar, Esam; Drosten, Christian; J Watson, Simon; Kellam, Paul; Cotten, Matthew; Zumla, Alimuddin

doi:10.1093/infdis/jiu292

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Respiratory tract samples, viral load, and genome fraction yield in patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome.

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Ziad A Memish

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq

Hatem Q Makhdoom

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Analysis of clinical samples from patients with new viral infections is critical to confirm the diagnosis, to specify the viral load, and to sequence data necessary for characterizing the viral kinetics, transmission, and evolution. We analyzed samples from 112 patients infected with the...

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MERS-CoV

Middle East

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