2012 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.

Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …

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2012 ZAKI, Ali Mohamed; BOHEEMEN, Sander van; BESTEFROER, Theo M.; ET AL

Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.

This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …

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2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.

Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…

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2014 AZHAR, Esam I.; EL-KAFRAWY, Sherif; FARRAJ, Suma A.; ET AL

Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.

Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…

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