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: Chu, Daniel K.W., Poon, Leo L.M., Gomaa, Mokhtar M., Shehata, Mahmoud M., Perera, Ranawaka A.P.M., Abu Zeid, Dina, El Rifay, Amira S., Siu, Lewis Y., Guan, Yi, Webby, Richard J., Ali, Mohamed A., Peiris, Malik, Kayali, Ghazi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4036765/

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