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Genetic drift of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia during 2012-2019.
Zoonoses and public health - 1 Aug 2021
Pan Yuan-Qing, Guo Fan, Bahoussi Amina Nawal, Shi Rui-Zhu, Li Ya-Qian, Xing Li
Abstract excerpt
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is caused by MERS-CoV that infects both human and camel. Camel is supposed to be the natural reservoir for human infection while the sources for most of the primary human infection cases are still not known. We identified two conserved pyrimidine nucleotides that flank UAAU element in MERS-CoV 5'-UTR. These conserved pyrimidine nucleotides distinguish MERS-CoVs into 3...
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