High proportion of MERS-CoV shedding dromedaries at slaughterhouse with a potential epidemiological link to human cases, Qatar 2014

High proportion of MERS-CoV shedding dromedaries at slaughterhouse with a potential epidemiological link to human cases, Qatar 2014

Two of the earliest Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) cases were men who had visited the Doha central animal market and adjoining slaughterhouse in Qatar. We show that a high proportion of camels presenting for slaughter in Qatar show evidence for nasal MERS-CoV shedding (62/105). Sequence ana...

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Main Authors: Elmoubasher A. B. A. Farag, Chantal B. E. M. Reusken, Bart L. Haagmans, Khaled A. Mohran, V. Stalin Raj, Suzan D. Pas, Jolanda Voermans, Saskia L. Smits, Gert-Jan Godeke, Mohd. M. Al-Hajri, Farhoud H. Alhajri, Hamad E. Al-Romaihi, Hazem Ghobashy, Mamdouh M. El-Maghraby, Ahmed M. El-Sayed, Mohamed H. J. Al Thani, Salih Al-Marri, Marion P. G. Koopmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-07-01
Series:Infection Ecology & Epidemiology
Subjects:
zoonoses
camels
MERS-CoV
respiratory infections
Online Access:http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee/article/view/28305/pdf_15

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