MERS coronaviruses in dromedary camels, Egypt

Chu, KW; Poon, LLM; Gomaa, MM; Shehata, MM; Perera, RAPM; Zeid, DA; El Rifay, AS; Siu, YL; Guan, Y; Webby, RJ; Ali, MA; Peiris, JSM; Kayali, G

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MERS coronaviruses in dromedary camels, Egypt

Authors: KW Chu
LLM Poon
MM Gomaa
MM Shehata
RAPM Perera
DA Zeid
AS El Rifay
YL Siu
Y Guan
RJ Webby
MA Ali
JSM Peiris
G Kayali
Publication date: 1 January 2014
Publisher: United States
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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 Peninsula, where human MERS-CoV infections have not yet been detected.published_or_final_versio

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