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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 Coronavirus [PDF]

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2021
AbstractThe past two decades have witnessed the emergence of three zoonotic coronaviruses which have jumped species to cause lethal disease in humans: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV-1), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and SARS-CoV-2. MERS-CoV emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and the origins of MERS-CoV
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Azhar, Esam I., Memish, Ziad A., Zumla, Alimuddin   +3 more
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
The source of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus remains unknown. Molecular investigation indicated that bats in Saudi Arabia are infected with several alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses.
Ziad A. Memish, Nischay Mishra, Kevin J. Olival, Shamsudeen F. Fagbo, Vishal Kapoor, Jonathan H. Epstein, Rafat AlHakeem, Abdulkareem Durosinloun, Mushabab Al Asmari, Ariful Islam, Amit Kapoor, Thomas Briese, Peter Daszak, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah, W. Ian Lipkin   +14 more
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus [PDF]

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
AbstractEmerging infectious diseases continue to be of a significant importance worldwide with the potential to cause major outbreaks and global pandemics. In 2002, the world had witnessed the appearance of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in China which disappeared abruptly within 6 months.
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Memish, Ziad A.
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Spread, Circulation, and Evolution of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus [PDF]

mBio, 2014
ABSTRACT The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first documented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in 2012 and, to date, has been identified in 180 cases with 43% mortality. In this study, we have determined the MERS-CoV evolutionary rate, documented genetic variants of the virus and their distribution
Cotten, M, Watson, SJ, Zumla, AI, Makhdoom, HQ, Palser, AL, Ong, SH, Al Rabeeah, AA, Alhakeem, RF, Assiri, A, Al-Tawfiq, JA, Albarrak, A, Barry, M, Shibl, A, Alrabiah, FA, Hajjar, S, Balkhy, HH, Flemban, H, Rambaut, A, Kellam, P, Memish, ZA   +19 more
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Treatment strategies for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Journal of Virus Eradication, 2016
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), an emerging infectious disease of growing global importance, has caused severe acute respiratory disease in more than 1600 people, resulting in almost 600 deaths.
Kayvon Modjarrad
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Asymptomatic Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Rabbits [PDF]

Journal of Virology, 2015
ABSTRACT The ability of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to infect small animal species may be restricted given the fact that mice, ferrets, and hamsters were shown to resist MERS-CoV infection. We inoculated rabbits with MERS-CoV.
Haagmans, Bart L, van den Brand, Judith M A, Provacia, Lisette B, Raj, V Stalin, Stittelaar, Koert J, Getu, Sarah, de Waal, Leon, Bestebroer, Theo M, Amerongen, Geert van, Verjans, Georges M G M, Fouchier, Ron A M, Smits, Saskia L., Kuiken, Thijs, Osterhaus, Albert D M E   +13 more
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Novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2014
Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Persistence of Antibodies against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
To determine how long antibodies against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus persist, we measured long-term antibody responses among persons serologically positive or indeterminate after a 2012 outbreak in Jordan.
Daniel C. Payne, Ibrahim Iblan, Brian Rha, Sultan Alqasrawi, Aktham Haddadin, Mohannad Al Nsour, Tarek Alsanouri, Sami Sheikh Ali, Jennifer Harcourt, Congrong Miao, Azaibi Tamin, Susan I. Gerber, Lia M. Haynes, Mohammad Mousa Al Abdallat   +13 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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