Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2015)

Acute Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Livestock Dromedaries, Dubai, 2014

  • Sung Sup Park,
  • Ulrich Wernery,
  • Victor M. Corman,
  • Emily Y.M. Wong,
  • Alan K.L. Tsang,
  • Doreen Muth,
  • Susanna K. P. Lau,
  • Kamal Khazanehdari,
  • Florian Zirkel,
  • Mansoor Ali,
  • Peter Nagy,
  • Jutka Juhasz,
  • Renate Wernery,
  • Sunitha Joseph,
  • Ginu Syriac,
  • Shyna K. Elizabeth,
  • Nissy Annie Georgy Patteril,
  • Patrick C. Y. Woo,
  • Christian Drosten

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2106.150038
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 6
pp. 1019 – 1022

Abstract

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Camels carry Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, but little is known about infection age or prevalence. We studied >800 dromedaries of all ages and 15 mother–calf pairs. This syndrome constitutes an acute, epidemic, and time-limited infection in camels <4 years of age, particularly calves. Delayed social separation of calves might reduce human infection risk.

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