Molecular Evolution of MERS Coronavirus: Dromedaries as a Recent Intermediate Host or Long-Time Animal Reservoir?

While dromedary camels are the immediate animal source of MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, the evolutionary origin of MERS-CoV remains obscure. We analyzed 219 camel and human MERS-CoV genome sequences available in GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis showed that 5 and 214 strains belong to clade A...

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Autores principales: Lau, Susanna K. P., Wong, Antonio C. P., Lau, Terrence C. K., Woo, Patrick C. Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5666820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29035289
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms18102138

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5666820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29035289
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms18102138

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