Middle East Respiratory Virus: Public Health and Genomic Insights - June 12, 2015

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Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS)

Middle East Respiratory Virus: Public Health and Genomic Insights - June 12, 2015

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• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)(Feature)
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
• Decoding MERS coronavirus: Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) provides quick answers

CDC feature: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

How to make sense of MERS outbreak data,by Declan Butler, Nature News, June 10

CDC information: Since May 2015, the Republic of Korea has been investigating an outbreak of MERS. It is the largest known outbreak of MERS outside the Middle East

WHO information: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Republic of Korea

As MERS outbreak surges, genetic tests show virus hasn't mutated, National Public Radio, June 8

Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Zumla A et al. Lancet 2015 Jun 3.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus "MERS-CoV": current knowledge gaps.
Banik GR et al. Paediatr Respir Rev 2015 Apr 18.

Laboratory investigation and phylogenetic analysis of an imported Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus case in Greece.
Kossyvakis A et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (4) e0125809

Real-time sequence-validated loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for detection of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Bhadra S et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (4) e0123126

Lack of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus transmission from infected camels.
Hemida MG et al. Emerging Infect. Dis. 2015 Apr (4) 699-701

Clinical and laboratory findings of the first imported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus to the United States.
Kapoor M et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2014 Dec 1. (11) 1511-8

Coronavirus virulence genes with main focus on SARS-CoV envelope gene.
DeDiego ML et al. Virus Res. 2014 Dec 19. 124-37

Coronaviruses: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in travelers.
Al-Tawfiq JA et al. Curr. Opin. Infect. Dis. 2014 Oct (5) 411-7

Laboratory testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, California, USA, 2013-2014
Shahkrami M et al, Emerg Infectious Diseases, Sept 2015

Middle East Respiratory Virus, Genomics and Public Health - June 18, 2014

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

CDC information: Decoding MERS coronavirus: Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) provides quick answers

Evidence from pathogen genomics for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus 
Esam I. Azhar, et al. New England J Medicine, June 4, 2014

CDC information:  Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) and response to infectious disease outbreaks

CDC information: AMD in action- fighting infectious disease on many fronts

CDC information: Pathogen genomics and public health