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Journal Article
Family Cluster of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections
2013
Overview
A novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was recently identified as the cause of severe respiratory disease. In this report from Saudi Arabia, a family cluster of infection over a 6-week period is described, suggesting possible limited person-to-person transmission.
MERS-CoV was first reported in September 2012 in samples obtained from a Saudi Arabian businessman who died from acute respiratory and renal failure.
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As of May 28, 2013, a total of 49 cases of human MERS-CoV infection with 26 deaths have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). MERS-CoV is the first betacoronavirus belonging to lineage C that is known to infect humans.
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It belongs to the Coronaviridae family, a group of large, enveloped single-stranded RNA viruses that are known for their genomic plasticity and their ability to cause a range of infections in mammalian and avian hosts. MERS-CoV . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Adult
/ Aged
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology
/ Coronavirus - classification
/ Coronavirus - isolation & purification
/ Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging
/ Coronavirus Infections - virology
/ Fever
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Pain
/ Patients
/ Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging
