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    [Source: The Lancet, full page: (LINK). Extract.]


    The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 20 September 2013
    doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61955-8

    Copyright ? 2013 Hui. Open Access article distributed under the terms of CC BY-NC-ND Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

    Tracking the transmission and evolution of MERS-CoV

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    David S Hui a
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    In 2012, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first emerged in a patient who died of severe pneumonia in Saudi Arabia. Although most cases confirmed so far in the Middle East have been sporadic with an unknown source of infection, human-to-human transmission has been reported in health-care and household settings. However, the source of the virus and mode of disease transmission remain unknown despite detection of a small fragment of sequence identical to the EMC/2012 MERS-C ...

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    a Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China


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