Article
An opportunistic Pathogen Afforded Ample Opportunities: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
2017-10-27
Abstract excerpt
The human coronaviruses (CoV) include HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1, some known for decades. The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) CoV briefly emerged into the human population but was controlled. In 2012 another novel severely human pathogenic CoV – Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)-CoV was identified in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where 80% of over 2,000 human cases have be...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 58038108-aa15-581e-a500-6e24ba49487f
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201710.0168.v1
