Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.

@article{Azhar2014EvidenceFC,
  title={Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.},
  author={Esam Ibraheem Azhar and Sherif Aly El-Kafrawy and Suha Abdulall Farraj and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Muneera S Al-Saeed and Anwar M. Hashem and Tariq A. Madani},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2014},
  volume={370 26},
  pages={
          2499-505
        }
}
We describe the isolation and sequencing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) obtained from a dromedary camel and from a patient who died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection after close contact with camels that had rhinorrhea. Nasal swabs collected from the patient and from one of his nine camels were positive for MERS-CoV RNA. In addition, MERS-CoV was isolated from the patient and the camel. The full genome sequences of the two isolates were identical. Serologic… 
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