Publications

co-circulation of three camel coronavirus species and recombination of mers-covs in saudi arabia.	outbreaks of middle east respiratory syndrome (mers) raise questions about the prevalence and evolution of the mers coronavirus (cov) in its animal reservoir. our surveillance in saudi arabia in 2014 and 2015 showed that viruses of the mers-cov species and a human cov 229e-related lineage co-circulated at high prevalence, with frequent co-infections in the upper respiratory tract of dromedary camels. viruses of the betacoronavirus 1 species, we found that dromedary camels share three cov species ...	2016	26678874
isolation and characterization of dromedary camel coronavirus uae-hku23 from dromedaries of the middle east: minimal serological cross-reactivity between mers coronavirus and dromedary camel coronavirus uae-hku23.	recently, we reported the discovery of a dromedary camel coronavirus uae-hku23 (dccov uae-hku23) from dromedaries in the middle east. in this study, dccov uae-hku23 was successfully isolated in two of the 14 dromedary fecal samples using hrt-18g cells, with cytopathic effects observed five days after inoculation. northern blot analysis revealed at least seven distinct rna species, corresponding to predicted subgenomic mrnas and confirming the core sequence of transcription regulatory sequence mo ...	2016	27164099