Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 23, 12 June 2014

[sharon sanders]

hat tip Shiloh

Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 23, 12 June 2014

Table of Contents
<hr class="Centre_divider"> Rapid communications
<hr class="Centre_divider"> Seroepidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in Saudi Arabia (1993) and Australia (2014) and characterisation of assay specificity
by MG Hemida, RA Perera, RA Al Jassim, G Kayali, LY Siu, P Wang, KW Chu, S Perlman, MA Ali, A Alnaeem, Y Guan, LL Poon, L Saif, M Peiris




Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) RNA and neutralising antibodies in milk collected according to local customs from dromedary camels, Qatar, April 2014
by CB Reusken, EA Farag, M Jonges, GJ Godeke, AM El-Sayed, SD Pas, VS Raj, KA Mohran, HA Moussa, H Ghobashy, F Alhajri, AK Ibrahim, BJ Bosch, SK Pasha, HE Al-Romaihi, M Al-Thani, SA Al-Marri, MM AlHajri, BL Haagmans, MP Koopmans


Research articles
<hr class="Centre_divider"> Assessment of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic in the Middle East and risk of international spread using a novel maximum likelihood analysis approach

by C Poletto, C Pelat, D L?vy-Bruhl, Y Yazdanpanah, PY Bo?lle, V Colizza




Epidemiological surveillance of colonising group B Streptococcus epidemiology in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley regions, Portugal (2005 to 2012): emergence of a new epidemic type IV/clonal complex 17 clone
by C Florindo, V Dami?o, I Silvestre, C Farinha, F Rodrigues, F Nogueira, F Martins-Pereira, R Castro, MJ Borrego, I Santos-Sanches, The Group for the Prevention of Neonatal GBS Infection


News
<hr class="Centre_divider"> The 2014 Hajj and Umrah ? current recommendations
by Eurosurveillance editorial team


Call for experts to join the Scientific Panels of the European Food Safety Authority ? deadline extended to 7 July 2014
by Eurosurveillance editorial team

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