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Volume 30, Number 3—March 2024
Dispatch

Biphasic MERS-CoV Incidence in Nomadic Dromedaries with Putative Transmission to Humans, Kenya, 2022–2023

Brian Maina Ogoti1, Victor Riitho1, Johanna Wildemann1, Nyamai Mutono, Julia Tesch, Jordi Rodon, Kaneemozhe Harichandran, Jackson Emanuel, Elisabeth Möncke-Buchner, Stella Kiambi, Julius Oyugi, Marianne Mureithi, Victor M. Corman, Christian Drosten, Samuel M. Thumbi1, and Marcel A. Müller1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (B.M. Ogoti, V. Riitho, N. Mutono, J. Oyugi, M. Mureithi, S.M. Thumbi); Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (V. Riitho); Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (J. Wildemann, J. Tesch, J. Rodon, K. Harichandran, J. Emanuel, E. Möncke-Buchner, V.M. Corman, C. Drosten, M.A. Müller); Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA (N. Mutono, S.M. Thumbi); Food and Agriculture Organization, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (S. Kiambi); Labor Berlin–Charité Vivantes GmbH, Berlin (V.M. Corman); German Center for Infection Research, Berlin (V.M. Corman, C. Drosten, M.A. Müller); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (S.M. Thumbi)

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Biphasic Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) incidence in dromedaries sampled in an abattoir hub, northern Kenya, 2022–2023. A) MERS-CoV RNA detection rates in nasal swab specimens from dromedary camels tested by MERS-CoV upE quantitative reverse transcription PCR. Continuous 12-month sampling (4–5 days per week) took place in Isiolo abattoir from mid-September 2022 to mid-September 2023. Sampling was suspended for 1 week in December 2022 and 1 week in July 2023. B) Detailed weekly overview of MERS-CoV RNA detections, peaking in October 2022 and February 2023.

Figure 1. Biphasic Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) incidence in dromedaries sampled in an abattoir hub, northern Kenya, 2022–2023. A) MERS-CoV RNA detection rates in nasal swab specimens from dromedary camels tested by MERS-CoV upE quantitative reverse transcription PCR. Continuous 12-month sampling (4–5 days per week) took place in Isiolo abattoir from mid-September 2022 to mid-September 2023. Sampling was suspended for 1 week in December 2022 and 1 week in July 2023. B) Detailed weekly overview of MERS-CoV RNA detections, peaking in October 2022 and February 2023.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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