• DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1401505
Corpus ID: 40023145

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

@article{Azhar2014EvidenceFC,
  title={Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.},
  author={E. Azhar and S. El-Kafrawy and S. Farraj and A. M. Hassan and Muneera S Al-Saeed and A. Hashem and T. Madani},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2014},
  volume={370 26},
  pages={
          2499-505
        }
}

E. Azhar, S. El-Kafrawy, +4 authors T. Madani

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

The New England journal of medicine

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… CONTINUE READING

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