Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
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.
Year introduced: 2015
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Tree Number(s): B04.820.578.500.540.150.113.750
MeSH Unique ID: D065207
Registry Number: txid1335626
Entry Terms:
- MERS-CoV
- MERS Virus
- MERS Viruses
- Virus, MERS
- Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
- Middle East respiratory syndrome related coronavirus
- Merbecovirus
- Merbecoviruses
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