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

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...

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Published in:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors:	Ziad A. Memish, Matthew Cotten, Benjamin Meyer, Simon J. Watson, Abdullah J. Alsahafi, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah, Victor Max Corman, Andrea Sieberg, Hatem Q. Makhdoom, Abdullah Assiri, Malaki Al Masri, Souhaib Aldabbagh, Berend-Jan Bosch, Martin Beer, Marcel A. Müller, Paul Kellam, Christian Drosten
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-06-01
Subjects:	MERS coronavirus viruses dromedary camels Saudi Arabia Middle East respiratory syndrome
Online Access:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/6/14-0402_article