TY - JOUR AU - Memish, Ziad AU - Cotten, Matthew AU - Meyer, Benjamin AU - Watson, Simon AU - Alsahafi, Abdullah AU - Al Rabeeah, Abdullah AU - Corman, Victor Max AU - Sieberg, Andrea AU - Makhdoom, Hatem AU - Assiri, Abdullah AU - Al Masri, Malaki AU - Aldabbagh, Souhaib AU - Bosch, Berend-Jan AU - Beer, Martin AU - Müller, Marcel AU - Kellam, Paul AU - Drosten, Christian T1 - Human Infection with MERS Coronavirus after Exposure to Infected Camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 6 SP - 1012 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We investigated a case of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after exposure to infected camels. Analysis of the whole human-derived virus and 15% of the camel-derived virus sequence yielded nucleotide polymorphism signatures suggestive of cross-species transmission. Camels may act as a direct source of human MERS-CoV infection. KW - MERS KW - coronavirus KW - viruses KW - dromedary camels KW - Saudi Arabia KW - Middle East respiratory syndrome KW - respiratory infections DO - 10.3201/eid2006.140402 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/6/14-0402_article ER - End of Reference