• Microbes and infection · Jul 2013

    Review

    Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): challenges in identifying its source and controlling its spread.

    • Lu Lu, Qi Liu, Lanying Du, and Shibo Jiang.
    • Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministries of Education and Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
    • Microbes Infect. 2013 Jul 1;15(8-9):625-9.

    AbstractMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a novel human coronavirus that caused outbreaks of a SARS-like illness in the Middle East, is now considered a threat to global public health. This review discusses the challenges in identifying the source of this fatal virus and developing effective and safe anti-MERS-CoV vaccines and therapeutics in order to control its spread and to combat any future pandemic.Copyright © 2013 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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