MERS Coronaviruses in Dromedary Camels, Egypt
zoonosis, Pneumonia, Genomics, phylogeny, Dromedary, Camel
We identified the near-full-genome sequence (29,908 nt, >99%) of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a nasal swab specimen from a dromedary camel in Egypt. We found that viruses genetically very similar to human MERS-CoV are infecting dromedaries beyond the Arabian Peninsula, where human MERS-CoV infections have not yet been detected.
Daniel K.W. Chu, Leo L.M. Poon, Mokhtar M. Gomaa, Mahmoud M. Shehata, Ranawaka A.P.M. Perera, Dina Abu Zeid, Amira S. El Rifay, Lewis Y. Siu, Yi Guan, Richard J. Webby, Mohamed A. Ali, Malik Peiris, Ghazi Kayali
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine