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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014

Dispatch

MERS Coronavirus Neutralizing Antibodies in Camels, Eastern Africa, 1983–1997

Marcel A. Müller1Comments to Author , Victor Max Corman1, Joerg Jores, Benjamin Meyer, Mario Younan, Anne M. Liljander, Berend-Jan Bosch, Erik Lattwein, Mosaad Hilali, Bakri E. Musa, Set Bornstein, and Sung Sup Park
Author affiliations: University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (M.A. Müller, V.M. Corman, B. Meyer, C. Drosten); German Centre for Infection Research, Bonn (V.M. Corman); International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya (J. Jores, A. Liljander); Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany, Nairobi (M. Younan); Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (B.-J. Bosch); EUROIMMUN AG, Lübeck, Germany (E. Lattwein); Cairo University, Giza, Egypt (M. Hilali); Ministry of Science and Communication, Khartoum, Sudan (B.E. Musa); National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden (S. Bornstein)

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Table 1

MERS-CoV antibodies in dromedary camels from eastern Africa*

Country, date No. samples No. rELISA positive (%)† No. mNT positive (%)‡
Egypt, 1997 Jul 43 35 (81.4) 34 (79.1)
Somalia
1983 Jan–Nov 25 20 (80.0) 17 (68.0)
1984 Feb–Dec 61 52 (85.2) 53 (86.9)
Sudan, 1983 Jun 60 52 (86.7) 49 (81.7)
Total 189 159 (84.1) 153 (81.0)

*MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; mNT, microneutralization test; rELISA, recombinant ELISA based on the MERS-CoV subunit 1 spike protein.
†Serum was tested at a dilution of 1:100.
‡mNT for MERS-CoV was done in a microtiter plate format in duplicate at dilutions 1:80 and 1:800. Serum with reciprocal titers >80 were considered MERS-CoV antibody positive.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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