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Acute respiratory viral infections in children in Rio de Janeiro and Teresópolis, Brazil
The frequency of viral pathogens causing respiratory infections in children in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Teresópolis was investigated. Nasal swabs from children with acute respiratory illnesses were collected between March 2006 and October…
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Prospects for Emerging Infections in East and Southeast Asia 10 Years after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
It is 10 years since severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged, and East and Southeast Asia retain a reputation as a hot spot of emerging infectious diseases. The region is certainly a hot spot of socioeconomic and environmental change, and…
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Cell Culture and Electron Microscopy for Identifying Viruses in Diseases of Unknown Cause
During outbreaks of infectious diseases or in cases of severely ill patients, it is imperative to identify the causative agent. This report describes several events in which virus isolation and identification by electron microscopy were critical to…
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Novel SARS-like Betacoronaviruses in Bats, China, 2011
To clarify the evolutionary relationships among betavoronaviruses that infect bats, we analyzed samples collected during 2010–2011 from 14 insectivorous bat species in China. We identified complete genomes of 2 novel betacoronaviruses in Rhinolophus…
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Cluster of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections in Iran, 2014
During January 2013–August 2014, a total of 1,800 patients in Iran who had respiratory illness were tested for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A cluster of 5 cases occurred in Kerman Province during May–July 2014, but virus transmission…
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Mortality Risk Factors for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak, South Korea, 2015
As of July 15, 2015, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare had reported 186 case-patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea. For 159 case-patients with known outcomes and complete case histories, we found that older age…
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Asymptomatic MERS-CoV Infection in Humans Possibly Linked to Infected Dromedaries Imported from Oman to United Arab Emirates, May 2015
In May 2015 in United Arab Emirates, asymptomatic Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection was identified through active case finding in 2 men with exposure to infected dromedaries. Epidemiologic and virologic findings suggested…
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Kinetics of Serologic Responses to MERS Coronavirus Infection in Humans, South Korea
We investigated the kinetics of serologic responses to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection by using virus neutralization and MERS-CoV S1 IgG ELISA tests. In most patients, robust antibody responses developed by the third…
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Characteristics of Traveler with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, China, 2015
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Deletion Variants of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus from Humans, Jordan, 2015
We characterized Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses from a hospital outbreak in Jordan in 2015. The viruses from Jordan were highly similar to isolates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, except for deletions in open reading frames 4a and 3.…
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