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Seroepidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in Saudi Arabia (1993) and Australia (2014) and characterisation of assay specificity
- Source :
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 19(23)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The pseudoparticle virus neutralisation test (ppNT) and a conventional microneutralisation (MN) assay are specific for detecting antibodies to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) when used in seroepidemiological studies in animals. Genetically diverse MERS-CoV appear antigenically similar in MN tests. We confirm that MERS-CoV was circulating in dromedaries in Saudi Arabia in 1993. Preliminary data suggest that feral Australian dromedaries may be free of MERS-CoV but larger confirmatory studies are needed.
- Subjects :
- Camelus
Epidemiology
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
viruses
Saudi Arabia
Virus Neutralization
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Antibodies, Viral
Virus
Neutralization
Article
Neutralization Tests
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Virology
medicine
Prevalence
Animals
Humans
Respiratory Tract Infections
Coronavirus
Extramural
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Australia
virus diseases
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
respiratory system
medicine.disease
Antibodies, Neutralizing
respiratory tract diseases
Immunoglobulin G
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Cattle
Coronavirus Infections
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15607917
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d4bab089c5eaf2a3d2052b0c29fabf3e