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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
The Middle East respiratory syndrome is caused by a coronavirus that was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Periodic outbreaks continue to occur in the Middle East and elsewhere. This report provides the latest information on MERS.
Alimuddin Zumla, D. Hui, S. Perlman
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Transmission [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection causes a spectrum of respiratory illness, from asymptomatic to mild to fatal. MERS-CoV is transmitted sporadically from dromedary camels to humans and occasionally through human-to-human ...
Marie E. Killerby, Holly M. Biggs, Claire M. Midgley, Susan I. Gerber, John T. Watson   +4 more
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Middle East respiratory syndrome [PDF]

The Lancet, 2015
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a highly lethal respiratory disease caused by a novel single-stranded, positive-sense RNA betacoronavirus (MERS-CoV). Dromedary camels, hosts for MERS-CoV, are implicated in direct or indirect transmission to human beings, although the exact mode of transmission is unknown.
Alimuddin Zumla, D. S. Hui, Stanley Perlman   +2 more
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: A Review

Journal of Pediatrics Review, 2015
Context: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection is an emerging human disease that has been reported from the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East countries since 2012. Although zoonotic transmission was postulated, virological and
Leila Sarparast, Mohammad Jafar Saffar
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Middle East respiratory syndrome vaccines [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has infected over 1600 individuals with nearly 600 deaths since it was first identified in human populations in 2012.
Stanley Perlman, Rahul Vijay
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Hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2013
BACKGROUND In September 2012, the World Health Organization reported the first cases of pneumonia caused by the novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). We describe a cluster of health care-acquired MERS-CoV infections.
A. Assiri, A. McGeer, T. Perl, C. Price, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah, D. Cummings, Z. Alabdullatif, M. Assad, Abdulmohsen Almulhim, H. Makhdoom, Hossam Madani, R. Alhakeem, J. Al-Tawfiq, M. Cotten, S. Watson, P. Kellam, Alimuddin Zumla, Z. Memish   +17 more
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Middle East respiratory syndrome and Hajj

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2016
Since the emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome in Saudi Arabia in 2012, it has been acknowledged as a major global public health threat. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) serves as one of the biggest hosts for millions of pilgrims.
Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava, Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava, Jegadeesh Ramasamy   +2 more
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in children [PDF]

Saudi Medical Journal, 2015
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a new human disease caused by a novel coronavirus (CoV). The disease is reported mainly in adults. Data in children are scarce. The disease caused by MERS-CoV in children presents with a wide range of clinical manifestations, and it is associated with a lower mortality rate compared with adults.
Farah Thabet, May Chehab, Hind Bafaqih, Sulaiman Almohaimeed   +3 more
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Emergence of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

PLoS Pathogens, 2013
It began routinely enough. A patient with severe respiratory disease at the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was getting worse and no one knew why. A sample of sputum was sent to Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki to identify the culprit, as he had identified these diseases many times before. However, this time would be different.
Christopher M Coleman, Matthew B Frieman
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: MERS

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2015
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a newly emerging respiratory virus. It was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. MERS-CoV infection is characterized by a spectrum of illness ranging from mild to acute and fulminant disease.
Emine Parlak
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