Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus neutralising serum antibodies in dromedary camels: a comparative serological study

@article{Reusken2013MiddleER,
  title={Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus neutralising serum antibodies in dromedary camels: a comparative serological study},
  author={Chantal B.E.M. Reusken and Bart L. Haagmans and Marcel Alexander M{\"u}ller and Carlos Guti{\'e}rrez and G J Godeke and Benjamin Meyer and Doreen Muth and V. Stalin Raj and Laura Smits-de Vries and Victor Max Corman and Jan Felix Drexler and Saskia L. Smits and Yasmin el Tahir and Rita de Sousa and Janko van Beek and Norbert Nowotny and Kees van Maanen and Ezequiel Hidalgo‐Hermoso and Berend Jan Bosch and Peter J. M. Rottier and Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus and Christian Gort{\'a}zar-Schmidt and Christian Drosten and Marion P. G. Koopmans},
  journal={The Lancet. Infectious Diseases},
  year={2013},
  volume={13},
  pages={859 - 866}
}
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