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The Lancet Infect Dis. Identification of MERS-CoV in dromedary camels

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


The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 17 December 2013

doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70691-1

Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Identification of MERS-CoV in dromedary camels

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Neil M Ferguson a, Maria D Van Kerkhove a
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One health?an initiative designed to integrate human and veterinary health?received a boost in The Lancet Infectious Diseases . A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the Netherlands, Qatar, and the UK report the first definitive isolation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a non-human animal species, dromedary camels. Phylogenetic analysis of the 4?2 kb partial viral sequence obtained from one animal show the virus to be almost identical to isolates obtained fr ...
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a Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK


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