MERS Coronaviruses in Dromedary Camels, Egypt

MERS Coronaviruses in Dromedary Camels, Egypt

We identified the near-full-genome sequence (29,908 nt, >99%) of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a nasal swab specimen from a dromedary camel in Egypt. We found that viruses genetically very similar to human MERS-CoV are infecting dromedaries beyond the Arabian Penins...

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Main Authors: Daniel K.W. Chu, Leo L.M. Poon, Mokhtar M. Gomaa, Mahmoud M. Shehata, Ranawaka A.P.M. Perera, Dina Abu Zeid, Amira S. El Rifay, Lewis Y. Siu, Yi Guan, Richard J. Webby, Mohamed A. Ali, Malik Peiris, Ghazi Kayali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
zoonosis
pneumonia
genomics
phylogeny
dromedary
camel
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/6/14-0299_article

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