mSphere (Aug 2021)
Amplicon and Metagenomic Analysis of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus and the Microbiome in Patients with Severe MERS
- Waleed Aljabr,
- Muhannad Alruwaili,
- Rebekah Penrice-Randal,
- Abdulrahman Alrezaihi,
- Abbie Jasmine Harrison,
- Yan Ryan,
- Eleanor Bentley,
- Benjamin Jones,
- Bader Y. Alhatlani,
- Dayel AlShahrani,
- Zana Mahmood,
- Natasha Y. Rickett,
- Bandar Alosaimi,
- Asif Naeem,
- Saad Alamri,
- Hadel Alsran,
- Maaweya E. Hamed,
- Xiaofeng Dong,
- Abdullah M. Assiri,
- Abdullah R. Alrasheed,
- Muaawia Hamza,
- Miles W. Carroll,
- Matthew Gemmell,
- Alistair Darby,
- I’ah Donovan-Banfield,
- James P. Stewart,
- David A. Matthews,
- Andrew D. Davidson,
- Julian A. Hiscox
Affiliations
- Waleed Aljabr
- ORCiD
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Muhannad Alruwaili
- ORCiD
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Rebekah Penrice-Randal
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Abdulrahman Alrezaihi
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Abbie Jasmine Harrison
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Yan Ryan
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Eleanor Bentley
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Benjamin Jones
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Bader Y. Alhatlani
- Department of Medical Applied Sciences, Unayzah Community College, Qassim University, Unayzah, Saudi Arabia
- Dayel AlShahrani
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Zana Mahmood
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Natasha Y. Rickett
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Bandar Alosaimi
- ORCiD
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Asif Naeem
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Saad Alamri
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Hadel Alsran
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Maaweya E. Hamed
- Department of Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Xiaofeng Dong
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Abdullah M. Assiri
- Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Abdullah R. Alrasheed
- Assistant Agency of Preventive Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Muaawia Hamza
- Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Miles W. Carroll
- Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Matthew Gemmell
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Alistair Darby
- ORCiD
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- I’ah Donovan-Banfield
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- James P. Stewart
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- David A. Matthews
- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Andrew D. Davidson
- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Julian A. Hiscox
- Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00219-21
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 4
Abstract
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) emerged in late 2012 in Saudi Arabia. The virus is a serious threat to people not only in the Middle East but also in the world and has been detected in over 27 countries.
