Human infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013
- Memish, Ziad A.
- Cotten, Matthew
- Meyer, Benjamin
- Watson, Simon J.
- Alsahafi, Abdullah J.
- Al Rabeeah, Abdullah A.
- Corman, Victor Max
- Sieberg, Andrea
- Makhdoom, Hatem Q.
- Assiri, Abdullah
- Al Masri, Malaki
- Aldabbagh, Souhaib
- Bosch, Berend-Jan
- Beer, Martin
- Müller, Marcel A.
- Kellam, Paul
- Drosten, Christian
Publication date
June 2014
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Abstract
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
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