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High Rate of Circulating MERS-CoV in Dromedary Camels at Slaughterhouses in Riyadh, 2019.
Viruses - 27 Oct 2020
Aljasim Taibah A, Almasoud Abdulrahman, Aljami Haya A, Alenazi Mohamed W, Alsagaby Suliman A, Alsaleh Asma N, Alharbi Naif Khalaf
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MERS-CoV is a zoonotic virus that has emerged in humans in 2012 and caused severe respiratory illness with a mortality rate of 34.4%. Since its appearance, MERS-CoV has been reported in 27 countries and most of these cases were in Saudi Arabia. So far, dromedaries are considered to be the intermediate host and the only known source of human infection. This study was designed to determine the seroprevalence and...
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