Authors: 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, LS Virologie, Strategic Infection Biology, I&I SIB1
Venue: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Type: Publication
Abstract: 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.
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