1. Isolation of MERS coronavirus from a dromedary camel, Qatar, 2014.
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Stalin Raj, V., Farag, Elmoubasher A. B. A., Reusken, Chantal B. E. M., Lamers, Mart M., Pas, Suzan D., Voermans, Jolanda, Smits, Saskia L., Osterhaus, Albert D. M. E., Al-Mawlawi, Naema, Al-Romaihi, Hamad E., AlHajri, Mohd M., El-Sayed, Ahmed M., Mohran, Khaled A., Ghobashy, Hazem, Alhajri, Farhoud, Al-Thani, Mohamed, Al-Marri, Salih A., El-Maghraby, Mamdouh M., Koopmans, Marion P. G., and Haagmans, Bart L.
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MERS coronavirus ,CAMEL diseases ,GENOMICS ,VIRAL replication ,CORONAVIRUSES ,ANIMAL experimentation ,ANIMAL diseases ,CELL lines ,DOCUMENTATION ,GENOMES ,RNA - Abstract
We obtained the full genome of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a camel in Qatar. This virus is highly similar to the human England/Qatar 1 virus isolated in 2012. The MERS-CoV from the camel efficiently replicated in human cells, providing further evidence for the zoonotic potential of MERS-CoV from camels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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