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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6(20), p. 1049-1053, 2014
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MERS Coronaviruses in Dromedary Camels, Egypt
Journal article published in 2014 by
Daniel K. W. Chu,
Dina Abu Zeid,
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
,
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
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract
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.