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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 50(18), 2013

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.50.20659

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus seroprevalence in domestic livestock in Saudi Arabia, 2010 to 2013

Journal article published in 2013 by Mg G. Hemida, Ra A. Perera, P. Wang, Ma A. Alhammadi, Ly Y. Siu, M. Li, Ll L. Poon ORCID, L. Saif, A. Alnaeem, M. Peiris
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Abstract

In Saudi Arabia, including regions of Riyadh and Al Ahsa, pseudoparticle neutralisation (ppNT) and microneutralisation (MNT) tests detected no antibodies to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in sheep (n= 100), goats (n= 45), cattle (n= 50) and chickens (n= 240). Dromedary camels however, had a high prevalence of MERS-CoV antibodies. Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) infected sera from cattle had no cross-reactivity in MERS-CoV ppNT or MNT, while many dromedary camels’ sera reacted to both BCoV and MERS-CoV. Some nevertheless displayed specific serologic reaction profiles to MERS-CoV.