Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

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.

keywords 🔗 syndrome coronavirus (1074) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004)

author 👤 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

year ⏰ 2014

journal 📚 Emerging Infectious Diseases

issn 🗄 10806059 10806040

volume 20

number 6

page 1012-1015

doi 📄 10.3201/eid2006.140402 ⤴

citedbycount 174

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