Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): challenges in identifying its source and controlling its spread

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a novel human coronavirus that caused outbreaks of a SARS-like illness in the Middle East, is now considered a threat to global public health. This review discusses the challenges in identifying the source of this fatal virus and developing ef...

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Autores principales: Lu, Lu, Liu, Qi, Du, Lanying, Jiang, Shibo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2013.06.003
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spelling pubmed-71104832020-04-02 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): challenges in identifying its source and controlling its spread Lu, Lu Liu, Qi Du, Lanying Jiang, Shibo Microbes Infect Article Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a novel human coronavirus that caused outbreaks of a SARS-like illness in the Middle East, is now considered a threat to global public health. This review discusses the challenges in identifying the source of this fatal virus and developing effective and safe anti-MERS-CoV vaccines and therapeutics in order to control its spread and to combat any future pandemic. Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS 2013 2013-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7110483/ /pubmed/23791956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2013.06.003 Text en Copyright © 2013 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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