Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes transient lower respiratory tract infection in rhesus macaques

E De Wit, AL Rasmussen… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… in respiratory tissues, gene expression, and cytokine and chemokine profiles peaked early in
infection and decreased over time. MERS-CoV … of MERS-CoV for the lower respiratory tract

[HTML][HTML] MERS-CoV in upper respiratory tract and lungs of dromedary camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013–2014

AI Khalafalla, X Lu, AIA Al-Mubarak… - Emerging infectious …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MERS-CoV in the upper respiratory tract, our findings raise the possibility that testing upper
respiratory tract … In humans, MERS-CoV was detected in the lower respiratory tract of infected …

Focus on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

A Bleibtreu, M Bertine, C Bertin… - Medecine et maladies …, 2020 - Elsevier
… They were held responsible for respiratory infections of … reports as causing lower respiratory
tract infections, it was … of SARS-CoV (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) in …

MERS-CoV as an emerging respiratory illness: a review of prevention methods

S Baharoon, ZA Memish - Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2019 - Elsevier
… Due to the well documented prolonged MERS-CoV shedding, Infection control precautions
should be applied until two consecutive lower respiratory tract samples (sputum or tracheal …

[HTML][HTML] Replication and shedding of MERS-CoV in upper respiratory tract of inoculated dromedary camels

DR Adney, N van Doremalen, VR Brown… - Emerging infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… for MERS-CoV. We inoculated 3 adult camels with a human isolate of MERS-CoV and a
transient, primarily upper respiratory tract … Clinical signs of the MERS-CoV infection were benign, …

MERS-CoV: understanding the latest human coronavirus threat

A Chafekar, BC Fielding - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
… Due to the increase in nosocomial infections, health care workers are also advised to be
aware of any upper respiratory tract infections and exposure to MERS-CoV-positive individuals […

MERS: emergence of a novel human coronavirus

VS Raj, ADME Osterhaus, RAM Fouchier… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
… Although MERS-CoV infection in humans is mainly observed in the lower respiratory tract,
in camels nose swabs were found virus positive. Conclusive evidence for the route of …

[PDF][PDF] Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical characteristics

MS Nassar, MA Bakhrebah, SA Meo… - Eur Rev Med …, 2018 - europeanreview.org
MERS-CoV” allied morbidity and mortality is a great alarming for health officials. The “MERS
CoV… inflammatory markers are also found in “MERS CoV” infection. The gold standards for …

MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission

IM Mackay, KE Arden - Virology journal, 2015 - Springer
MERS, with the majority of human cases. In humans, MERS is mostly known as a lower
respiratory tract (… that may progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan failure and …

[HTML][HTML] Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) viral shedding in the respiratory tract: an observational analysis with infection control implications

ZA Memish, AM Assiri, JA Al-Tawfiq - International Journal of Infectious …, 2014 - Elsevier
… that lower respiratory tract samples yield higher MERS-CoV viral loads and genome
fractions than upper respiratory tract samples. Since cases had lower respiratory tract samples …