Detection of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Genome in an Air Sample Originating from a Camel Barn Owned by an Infected Patient

• Published in: mBio Vol. 5; no. 4; p. e01450
• Main Authors: Azhar, Esam I., Hashem, Anwar M., El-Kafrawy, Sherif A., Sohrab, Sayed Sartaj, Aburizaiza, Asad S., Farraj, Suha A., Hassan, Ahmed M., Al-Saeed, Muneera S., Jamjoom, Ghazi A., Madani, Tariq A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society of Microbiology 22.07.2014; American Society for Microbiology
• Subjects: air; airborne transmission; Animals; barns; camels; Camelus; Camelus dromedarius; Chiroptera; Coronavirus - genetics; farms; genome; Genome, Viral - genetics; Humans; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus - genetics; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus - isolation & purification; Molecular Sequence Data; monitoring; Observation; patients; respiratory tract diseases; RNA; viruses

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a novel betacoronavirus that has been circulating in the Arabian Peninsula since 2012 and causing severe respiratory infections in humans. While bats were suggested to be involved in human MERS-CoV infections, a direct link between bats and...