Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

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

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Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

Memish Z
Cotten M
Meyer B
et al.

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2014) 20(6) 1012-1015

DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.140402

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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 transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV infection.

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Memish, Z. A., Cotten, M., Meyer, B., Watson, S. J., Alsahafi, A. J., Al Rabeeah, A. A., … Drosten, C. (2014). Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20(6), 1012–1015. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.140402

Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

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