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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: MERS [PDF]

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 ...
Emine Parlak
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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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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus infection: An overview

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2013
Summary: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was reported from a number of countries in the Middle East and Europe with a reported high mortality rate. MERS-CoV was initially isolated from a patient from Bisha, Saudi Arabia.
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq
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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.
Arabi, Yaseen M., Balkhy, Hanan H., Hayden, Frederick G., Bouchama, Abderrezak, Luke, Thomas, Baillie, John; id_orcid 0000-0001-5258-793X, Al-Omari, Awad, Hajeer, Ali H., Senga, Mikiko, Denison, Mark R., Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S., Shindo, Nahoko, Bermingham, Alison, Chappell, James D., Van Kerkhove, Maria D., Fowler, Robert A.   +15 more
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Middle East respiratory syndrome [PDF]

Lancet, The, 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, David S C Hui, Stanley Perlman   +2 more
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Infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 2015
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first recognized as a new febrile respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia in June 2012. As of September 21, 2015, the WHO reported 1569 laboratory-confirmed cases, including at least 554 related
Sami Alsolamy, Yaseen M Arabi
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Vaccine Candidates: Cautious Optimism

Viruses, 2019
Efforts towards developing a vaccine for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have yielded promising results. Utilizing a variety of platforms, several vaccine approaches have shown efficacy in animal models and begun to enter clinical
Craig Schindewolf, Vineet D. Menachery
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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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The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2019
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a novel lethal zoonotic disease of humans caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Although MERS is endemic to the Middle East, travelers have exported MERS-CoV on return to their home countries. Clinical manifestations range from mild to severe acute respiratory disease and death.
Esam I Azhar, David S C Hui, Christian Drosten   +2 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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