[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity

AT Huang, B Garcia-Carreras, MDT Hitchings… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many public health responses and modeled scenarios for COVID-19 outbreaks caused by
SARS-CoV-2 assume that infection results in an immune response that protects individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Measures for diagnosing and treating infections by a novel coronavirus responsible for a pneumonia outbreak originating in Wuhan, China

F Yu, L Du, DM Ojcius, C Pan, S Jiang - Microbes and infection, 2020 - Elsevier
On 10 January 2020, a new coronavirus causing a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan City in
central China was denoted as 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of …

[HTML][HTML] Middle East respiratory syndrome

A Zumla, DS Hui, S Perlman - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a highly lethal respiratory disease caused by a
novel single-stranded, positive-sense RNA betacoronavirus (MERS-CoV). Dromedary …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: another zoonotic betacoronavirus causing SARS-like disease

JFW Chan, SKP Lau, KKW To… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The source of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic was traced to wildlife
market civets and ultimately to bats. Subsequent hunting for novel coronaviruses (CoVs) led …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] MERS-CoV: understanding the latest human coronavirus threat

A Chafekar, BC Fielding - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Human coronaviruses cause both upper and lower respiratory tract infections in humans. In
2012, a sixth human coronavirus (hCoV) was isolated from a patient presenting with severe …

Serological assays for emerging coronaviruses: challenges and pitfalls

B Meyer, C Drosten, MA Müller - Virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
More than a decade after the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
(SARS-CoV) in 2002/2003 the occurrence of a novel CoV termed Middle East respiratory …

Rooting the phylogenetic tree of middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus by characterization of a conspecific virus from an African bat

VM Corman, NL Ithete, LR Richards… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The emerging Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
causes lethal respiratory infections mainly on the Arabian Peninsula. The evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility of using convalescent plasma immunotherapy for MERS-CoV infection, Saudi Arabia

YM Arabi, AH Hajeer, T Luke… - Emerging infectious …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We explored the feasibility of collecting convalescent plasma for passive immunotherapy of
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection by using ELISA to …

Transmission of MERS-coronavirus in household contacts

C Drosten, B Meyer, MA Müller… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Strategies to contain the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-
CoV) depend on knowledge of the rate of human-to-human transmission, including …