학술논문
Human Infection with MERS Coronavirus after Exposure to Infected Camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013.
Document Type
Article
Author
Memish, Ziad A.; Cotten, Matthew; Meyer, Benjamin; Watson, Simon J.; Alsahafi, Abdullah J.; Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A.; Corman, Victor Max; Sieberg, Andrea; Makhdoom, Hatem Q.; Assiri, Abdullah; Al Masri, Malaki; Aldabbagh, Souhaib; Bosch, Berend-Jan; Beer, Martin; Müller, Marcel A.; Kellam, Paul; Drosten, Christian
Source
Subject
*MERS coronavirus
*MIDDLE East respiratory syndrome
*CAMEL diseases
*DISEASE vectors
*NUCLEOTIDES
*GENETIC polymorphism research
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Language
ISSN
1080-6040
Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]