📄 MERS coronaviruses in dromedary camels, Egypt

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.

keywords 🔗 syndrome coronavirus (1074) 🔗 genome sequence (133) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004) 🔗 nasal swab (58)

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