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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2021;27(4):1201-1205.
doi: 10.3201/eid2704.204458.
Low-Level Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus among Camel Handlers, Kenya, 2019
Peninah M Munyua, Isaac Ngere, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Adano Kochi, Patrick Amoth, Lydia Mwasi, Suxiang Tong, Athman Mwatondo, Natalie Thornburg, Marc-Alain Widdowson, M Kariuki Njenga
Abstract
Although seroprevalence of Middle East respiratory coronavirus syndrome is high among camels in Africa, researchers have not detected zoonotic transmission in Kenya. We followed a cohort of 262 camel handlers in Kenya during April 2018-March 2020. We report PCR-confirmed Middle East respiratory coronavirus syndrome in 3 asymptomatic handlers.
Keywords: Kenya; MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; asymptomatic; camels; humans; infections; viral zoonoses; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2021;27(4):1201-1205.
doi: 10.3201/eid2704.204458.
Low-Level Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus among Camel Handlers, Kenya, 2019
Peninah M Munyua, Isaac Ngere, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Adano Kochi, Patrick Amoth, Lydia Mwasi, Suxiang Tong, Athman Mwatondo, Natalie Thornburg, Marc-Alain Widdowson, M Kariuki Njenga
- PMID: 33754992
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2704.204458
Abstract
Although seroprevalence of Middle East respiratory coronavirus syndrome is high among camels in Africa, researchers have not detected zoonotic transmission in Kenya. We followed a cohort of 262 camel handlers in Kenya during April 2018-March 2020. We report PCR-confirmed Middle East respiratory coronavirus syndrome in 3 asymptomatic handlers.
Keywords: Kenya; MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; asymptomatic; camels; humans; infections; viral zoonoses; viruses; zoonoses.