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Middle East respiratory syndrome [PDF]

The Lancet, 2020
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lethal zoonotic pathogen that was first identified in humans in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2012. Intermittent sporadic cases, community clusters, and nosocomial outbreaks of MERS-CoV continue to occur.
Memish, Ziad A, Perlman, Stanley, Van Kerkhove, Maria D, Zumla, Alimuddin   +3 more
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) origin and animal reservoir [PDF]

Virology Journal, 2016
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a novel coronavirus discovered in 2012 and is responsible for acute respiratory syndrome in humans.
H. Mohd, J. Al-Tawfiq, Z. Memish
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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 coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in two returning travellers in the Netherlands, May 2014 [PDF]

, 2014
Two patients, returning to the Netherlands from pilgrimage in Medina and Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were diagnosed with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in May 2014.
Marleen Kraaij – Dirkzwager, Aura Timen, Kees Dirksen, L. B. S. Gelinck, Eliane M.S. Leyten, Peter W. Groeneveld, C. L. Jansen, Marcel Jonges, V. Stalin Raj, Ingrid Thurkow, Rianne van Gageldonk-Lafeber, A. van der Eijk, Marion Koopmans   +12 more
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Novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2014
Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: Another Zoonotic Betacoronavirus Causing SARS-Like Disease [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2015
The source of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic was traced to wildlife market civets and ultimately to bats. Subsequent hunting for novel coronaviruses (CoVs) led to the discovery of two additional human and over 40 animal CoVs ...
J. Chan, S. Lau, K. To, V. Cheng, P. Woo, K. Yuen   +5 more
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Low-Level Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus among Camel Handlers, Kenya, 2019

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
Although seroprevalence of Middle East respiratory coronavirus syndrome is high among camels in Africa, researchers have not detected zoonotic transmission in Kenya. We followed a cohort of 262 camel handlers in Kenya during April 2018–March 2020.
Peninah M. Munyua, Isaac Ngere, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Adano Kochi, Patrick Amoth, Lydia Mwasi, Suxiang Tong, Athman Mwatondo, Natalie Thornburg, Marc-Alain Widdowson, M. Kariuki Njenga   +10 more
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in dromedary camels: an outbreak investigation [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes severe lower respiratory tract infection in people. Previous studies suggested dromedary camels were a reservoir for this virus.
Bart L. Haagmans, Said H S Al Dhahiry, Chantal Reusken, V. Stalin Raj, Mónica Galiano, Richard Myers, Gert‐Jan Godeke, Marcel Jonges, Elmoubasher Farag, A. H.M. Diab, Hazem M. Ghobashy, Farhoud Alhajri, Mohamed H. Al‐Thani, Salih Al-Marri, Hamad Eid Al‐Romaihi, Abdullatif Al Khal, Alison Bermingham, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Mohd M. AlHajri, Marion Koopmans   +19 more
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The antiviral compound remdesivir potently inhibits RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020
Antiviral drugs for managing infections with human coronaviruses are not yet approved, posing a serious challenge to current global efforts aimed at containing the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (CoV-2).
Calvin J. Gordon, E. Tchesnokov, Joy Y. Feng, D. Porter, M. Götte   +4 more
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) [PDF]

Microbiology Spectrum, 2016
ABSTRACTSince the identification of the first patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012, over 1,600 cases have been reported as of February 2016. Most cases have occurred in Saudi Arabia or in other countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula, but travel-associated cases have also been seen in countries outside the ...
Amelia K. Watson, David L. Swerdlow, Sonja A. Rasmussen   +2 more
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