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MERS Coronaviruses in Dromedary Camels,Egypt |
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| Authors: | Daniel K.W. Chu Leo L.M. Poon Mokhtar M. Gomaa Mahmoud M. Shehata Ranawaka A.P.M. Perera Dina Abu Zeid Amira S. El Rifay Lewis Y. Siu Yi Guan Richard J. Webby Mohamed A. Ali Malik Peiris Ghazi Kayali |
| Affiliation: | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (D.K.W. Chu, L.L.M. Poon, R.A.P.M. Perera, Y. Guan, M. Peiris); ;National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt (M.M. Gomaa, M.M. Shehata, D.A. Zeid, A.S. El Rifay, M.A. Ali); ;HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, Hong Kong (L.Y. Siu); ;St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (R.J. Webby, G. Kayali) |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | zoonosis pneumonia genomics phylogeny dromedary camel Egypt viruses coronaviruses Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS MERS-CoV |