August 21, 2013Open Access

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

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The source of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus remains unknown. Molecular investigation indicated that bats in Saudi Arabia are infected with several alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses. Virus from 1 bat showed 100% nucleotide identity to virus from the human index case-patient. Bats might play a role in human infection.

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Memish et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11c86f35a4eec8fedcd469 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1911.131172

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