Evidence for Camel-to-Human Transmission of MERS Coronavirus  

Oleh:

Azhar, Esam I. ; El-Kafrawy, Sherif A. ; Farraj, Suha A. ; Hassan, Ahmed M. ; Al-Saeed, Muneera S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 370 no. 26 (Jun. 2014), page 2499-2505.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2014.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We describe the isolation and sequencing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) obtained from a dromedary camel and from a patient who died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection after close contact with camels that had rhinorrhea. Nasal swabs collected from the patient and from one of his nine camels were positive for MERS-CoV RNA. In addition, MERS-CoV was isolated from the patient and the camel. The full genome sequences of the two isolates were identical. Serologic data indicated that MERS-CoV was circulating in the camels but not in the patient before the human infection occurred. These data suggest that this fatal case of human MERS-CoV infection was transmitted through close contact with an infected camel.

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