📄 MERS, SARS and other coronaviruses as causes of pneumonia

© 2017 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. Human coronaviruses (HCo. Vs) have been considered to be relatively harmless respiratory pathogens in the past. However, after the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and emergence of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), HCo. Vs have received worldwide attention as important pathogens in respiratory tract infection. This review focuses on the epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical characteristics among SARS-coronaviruses (CoV), MERS-CoV and other HCoV infections.

keywords 🔗 severe acute (1373) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004) 🔗 respiratory tract (344) 🔗 acute respiratory (1734)

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