- Title
Tracking down MERS coronavirus.
- Authors
Hofer, Ursula
- Abstract
The article reports that the detection of antibodies for the virus in dromedary camels and of viral sequences in tomb bats, and in patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) proposes that the two animals serve as the MERS-CoV reservoirs.
- Subjects
MERS coronavirus; CAMELS; DISEASE vectors
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 10, p660
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro3129