MERS-CoV remains a persistent threat amid global events

• Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,
• Sameera Al Johani,
• Ziad A. Memish

Affiliations

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq

Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Corresponding author at: Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Sameera Al Johani

Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, College of Medicien, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ziad A. Memish

King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea