Infectious MERS-CoV Isolated From a Mildly Ill Patient, Saudi Arabia

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is associated with a wide range of clinical presentations, from asymptomatic or mildly ill to severe respiratory illness including death. We describe isolation of infectious MERS-CoV from the upper respiratory tract of a mildly ill 27-year-old...

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Autores principales: Al-Abdely, Hail M, Midgley, Claire M, Alkhamis, Abdulrahim M, Abedi, Glen R, Tamin, Azaibi, Binder, Alison M, Alanazi, Khalid, Lu, Xiaoyan, Abdalla, Osman, Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K, Mohammed, Mutaz, Queen, Krista, Algarni, Homoud S, Li, Yan, Trivedi, Suvang, Algwizani, Abdullah, Alhakeem, Raafat F, Thornburg, Natalie J, Tong, Suxiang, Ghazal, Sameeh S, Erdman, Dean D, Assiri, Abdullah M, Gerber, Susan I, Watson, John T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30294617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy111
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Sumario:Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is associated with a wide range of clinical presentations, from asymptomatic or mildly ill to severe respiratory illness including death. We describe isolation of infectious MERS-CoV from the upper respiratory tract of a mildly ill 27-year-old female in Saudi Arabia 15 days after illness onset.

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