Cross-sectional prevalence study of MERS-CoV in local and imported dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia, 2016-2018.

Cross-sectional prevalence study of MERS-CoV in local and imported dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia, 2016-2018.

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an endemic virus in dromedaries. Annually, Saudi Arabia imports thousands of camels from the Horn of Africa, yet the epidemiology of MERS-CoV in these animals is largely unknown. Here, MERS-CoV prevalence was compared in imported African...

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Main Authors: Ahmed M Tolah, Saad B Al Masaudi, Sherif A El-Kafrawy, Ahmed A Mirza, Steve M Harakeh, Ahmed M Hassan, Mohammed A Alsaadi, Abdulrahman A Alzahrani, Ghaleb A Alsaaidi, Nabil M S Amor, Abdulaziz N Alagaili, Anwar M Hashem, Esam I Azhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232790

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