Middle East respiratory syndrome: emergence of a pathogenic human coronavirus

AR Fehr, R Channappanavar… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
In 2012, a zoonotic coronavirus was identified as the causative agent of Middle East
respiratory syndrome and was named MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). As of August 11 …

Middle East respiratory syndrome: an emerging coronavirus infection tracked by the crowd

IM Mackay, KE Arden - Virus research, 2015 - Elsevier
In 2012 in Jordan, infection by a novel coronavirus (CoV) caused the first known cases of
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). MERS-CoV sequences have since been found in …

MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission

IM Mackay, KE Arden - Virology journal, 2015 - Springer
The first known cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), associated with infection
by a novel coronavirus (CoV), occurred in 2012 in Jordan but were reported retrospectively …

Outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: a retrospective study

FS Aleanizy, N Mohmed, FY Alqahtani… - BMC infectious …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is proposed to be a
zoonotic disease. Dromedary camels have been implicated due to reports that some …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): what lessons can we learn?

AS Omrani, S Shalhoub - Journal of hospital infection, 2015 - Elsevier
Summary The Middle East Respiratory Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first isolated from a
patient who died with severe pneumonia in June 2012. As of 19 June 2015, a total of 1,338 …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: risk factors and determinants of primary, household, and nosocomial transmission

DS Hui, EI Azhar, YJ Kim, ZA Memish, M Oh… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lethal zoonosis that causes
death in 35· 7% of cases. As of Feb 28, 2018, 2182 cases of MERS-CoV infection (with 779 …

[HTML][HTML] Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus transmission

ME Killerby, HM Biggs, CM Midgley… - Emerging infectious …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection causes a spectrum of
respiratory illness, from asymptomatic to mild to fatal. MERS-CoV is transmitted sporadically …

[HTML][HTML] Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): A review

N Ramadan, H Shaib - Germs, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As a novel coronavirus first reported by Saudi Arabia in 2012, the Middle East respiratory
syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is responsible for an acute human respiratory …

The middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS)

EI Azhar, DSC Hui, ZA Memish, C Drosten… - Infectious Disease …, 2019 - id.theclinics.com
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a new zoonotic human
viral pathogen endemic to the Middle East. 1–3 It was identified in 2012 in a lung sample of …

Middle East respiratory syndrome

ZA Memish, S Perlman, MD Van Kerkhove, A Zumla - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lethal
zoonotic pathogen that was first identified in humans in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2012 …