Transmission and evolution of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: a descriptive genomic study

Cotten, Matthew; J. Watson, Simon; Kellam, Paul; A Al-Rabeeah, Abdullah; Q. Makhdoom, Hatem; M. Assiri, Abdullah; A. Al‐Tawfiq, Jaffar; F. Alhakeem, Rafat; Madani, Hossam; Alrabiah, Fahad; Al Hajjar, Sami; N. Al‐Nassir, Wafa; Albarrak, Ali; Flemban, Hesham; H. Balkhy, Hanan; Alsubaie, Sarah; Palser, Anne; Gall, Astrid; Bashford-Rogers, Rachael; Rambaut, Andrew; Zumla, Alimuddin; A. Memish, Ziad

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61887-5

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Transmission and evolution of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: a descriptive genomic study

Published in The Lancet • Sep 19, 2013

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Matthew Cotten

Simon J. Watson

Paul Kellam

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Since June, 2012, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has, worldwide, caused 104 infections in people including 49 deaths, with 82 cases and 41 deaths reported from Saudi Arabia. In addition to confirming diagnosis, we generated the MERS-CoV genomic sequences obtained...

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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Middle East respiratory syndrome

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