title: MERS coronaviruses in dromedary camels, Egypt.
abstract: We identified the near-full-genome sequence (29,908 nt, >99%) of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a nasal swab specimen from a dromedary camel in Egypt. We found that viruses genetically very similar to human MERS-CoV are infecting dromedaries beyond the Arabian Peninsula, where human MERS-CoV infections have not yet been detected.
authors.forename: Daniel K W
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Leo L M
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: Mokhtar M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gomaa
authors.forename: Mahmoud M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Shehata
authors.forename: Ranawaka A P M
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Perera
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abu Zeid
authors.forename: Amira S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: El Rifay
authors.forename: Lewis Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Siu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Webby
authors.forename: Mohamed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Malik
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peiris
authors.forename: Ghazi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kayali
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D002162:Camelus / Q000821:virology*; D002353:Carrier State; D002648:Child; D018352:Coronavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D065207:Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010802:Phylogeny; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins
keywords: Egypt; MERS; MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome; camel; coronaviruses; dromedary; genomics; phylogeny; pneumonia; viruses; zoonosis