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... > Viruses > RNA Viruses > Positive-Strand RNA Viruses > Nidovirales > Coronaviridae > Coronavirus > Betacoronavirus > Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Preferred term

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • MERS-CoV
  • MERS Virus
  • MERS Viruses
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome related coronavirus
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
  • Virus, MERS

Note

  • infection: coordinate with MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME see CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • A coronavirus first reported in the summer of 2012 in a pneumonia patient in SAUDI ARABIA. It is related to SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME-RELATED CORONAVIRUS. MERS-CoV has an estimated incubation period of 12 days and symptoms include renal failure and severe acute pneumonia with often fatal outcome.

History note

  • 2015

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D065207

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