Human Infection with MERS Coronavirus after Exposure to Infected Camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013.

Authors :: Memish, Ziad A.
Cotten, Matthew
Meyer, Benjamin
Watson, Simon J.
Alsahafi, Abdullah J.
Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A.
Corman, Victor Max
Sieberg, Andrea
Makhdoom, Hatem Q.
Assiri, Abdullah
Al Masri, Malaki
Aldabbagh, Souhaib
Bosch, Berend-Jan
Beer, Martin
Müller, Marcel A.
Kellam, Paul
Drosten, Christian
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases. Jun2014, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p1012-1015. 4p. 1 Chart, 1 Graph.
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: We investigated a case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after exposure to infected camels. Analysis of the whole human-derived virus and 15% of the camel-derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross-species transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: *MERS coronavirus
*MIDDLE East respiratory syndrome
*CAMEL diseases
*DISEASE vectors
*NUCLEOTIDES
*GENETIC polymorphism research

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