Co-circulation of three camel coronavirus species and recombination of MERS-CoVs in Saudi Arabia

S. M. Sabir, Jamal; Tsan‐Yuk Lam, Tommy; Morsi M. Ahmed, Mohamed; Li, Lifeng; Shen, Yongyi; E. M. Abo‐Aba, Salah; I. Qureshi, Muhammd; Abu-Zeid, Mohamed; Zhang, Yu; A. Khiyami, Mohammad; S. Alharbi, Njud; H. Hajrah, Nahid; J. Sabir, Meshaal; Mutwakil, Mohammed; A. Kabli, Saleh; A. S. Alsulaimany, Faten; Y. Obaid, Abdullah; Zhou, Boping; K. Smith, David; C. Holmes, Edward; Zhu, Huachen; Guan, Yi

doi:10.1126/science.aac8608

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Co-circulation of three camel coronavirus species and recombination of MERS-CoVs in Saudi Arabia

Published in Science • Dec 18, 2015

Authors:

Jamal S. M. Sabir

Tommy Tsan‐Yuk Lam

Mohamed Morsi M. Ahmed

Abstract

Outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) raise questions about the prevalence and evolution of the MERS coronavirus (CoV) in its animal reservoir. Our surveillance in Saudi Arabia in 2014 and 2015 showed that viruses of the MERS-CoV species and a human CoV 229E-related lineage co-circula...

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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Coronavirus

Biology

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