Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

Ziad A. Memish; Matthew Cotten; Benjamin Meyer; Simon J. Watson; Abdullah J. Alsahafi; Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah; Victor Max Corman; Andrea Sieberg; Hatem Q. Makhdoom; Abdullah Assiri; Malaki Al Masri; Souhaib Aldabbagh; Berend Jan Bosch; Martin Beer; Marcel A. Müller; Paul Kellam; Christian Drosten

doi:10.3201/eid2006.140402

Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013

Ziad A. Memish
, Matthew Cotten
, Benjamin Meyer
, Simon J. Watson
, Abdullah J. Alsahafi
, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah
, Victor Max Corman
, Andrea Sieberg
, Hatem Q. Makhdoom
, Abdullah Assiri
, Malaki Al Masri
, Souhaib Aldabbagh
, Berend Jan Bosch
, Martin Beer
, Marcel A. Müller
, Paul Kellam
, Christian Drosten

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We investigated a case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after exposure to infected camels. Analysis of the whole human-derived virus and 15% of the camel-derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross-species transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1012-1015
Number of pages	4
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	20
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.140402
Publication status	Published - 2014

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MERS

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Memish, Z. A., Cotten, M., Meyer, B., Watson, S. J., Alsahafi, A. J., Al Rabeeah, A. A., Corman, V. M., Sieberg, A., Makhdoom, H. Q., Assiri, A., Al Masri, M., Aldabbagh, S., Bosch, B. J., Beer, M., Müller, M. A., Kellam, P., & Drosten, C. (2014). Human Infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20(6), 1012-1015. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.140402

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