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MERS-CoV diagnosis: An update.
Diagnosis of MERS-Cov still a major concern in most of daignostic laboratories. To date the Real-time Polymerase Chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the mainstay for diagnosis of MERS-CoV. RT-PCR has limitations, including a long turnaround time and lack of common measurements and correlations with Viral Load (VL). It is recommended to screen for MERS-CoV using RT-PCR of the upstream of envelope gene (u...
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) came to attention as an emerging pathogen causing severe respiratory illness in patients from the Middle East in September 2012. As of 14 June 2013, 58 human cases of MERS CoV infection have been confirmed, including 33 deaths (case fatality rate of 57%). MERS CoV is a beta-coronavirus, in the same family as SARS-CoV, and shares a probable...
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(MERS) یک بیماری ویروسی تنفسی است که اولین بار در سپتامبر 2012 در جده عربستان سعودی گزارش شد. عامل بیماری، یک ویروس جدید از گروه بتاکوروناویروسها است که تا این مرحله منشاء آن نامشخص است؛ ولی مطالعات ژنتیکی حاکی از آن است که کوروناویروسهای خفاش بیشترین نزدیکی را به این ویروس دارند. به طور کلی، MERS-CoV به نظر یک ویروس حیوانی است که به صورت اسپورادیک و با انتقال محدود، منجر به عفونت در انسان می...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Krankenhaus-Hygiene + Infektionsverhütung
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0720-3373
DOI: 10.1016/j.khinf.2015.08.004