1. Severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, in a patient transferred to the United Kingdom from the Middle East, September 2012.
- Author
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Bermingham A, Chand MA, Brown CS, Aarons E, Tong C, Langrish C, Hoschler K, Brown K, Galiano M, Myers R, Pebody RG, Green HK, Boddington NL, Gopal R, Price N, Newsholme W, Drosten C, Fouchier RA, and Zambon M
- Subjects
- Animals, Coronavirus classification, Coronavirus pathogenicity, Coronavirus Infections microbiology, Coronavirus Infections virology, Disease Notification, Disease Reservoirs, Gene Expression Profiling, Humans, Intensive Care Units, London, Male, Middle Aged, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Respiratory Insufficiency complications, Respiratory Insufficiency therapy, Saudi Arabia, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome microbiology, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome therapy, Coronavirus isolation & purification, Coronavirus Infections diagnosis, Patient Transfer, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome etiology, Travel
- Abstract
Coronaviruses have the potential to cause severe transmissible human disease, as demonstrated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003. We describe here the clinical and virological features of a novel coronavirus infection causing severe respiratory illness in a patient transferred to London, United Kingdom, from the Gulf region of the Middle East.
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- 2012