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. 2016 Mar;22(3):555-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid2203.151284.

Absence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Camelids, Kazakhstan, 2015

Eve Miguel, Ranawaka A P M Perera, Almagul Baubekova, Véronique Chevalier, Bernard Faye, Nurlan Akhmetsadykov, Chun Yin Ng, François Roger, Malik Peiris

Absence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Camelids, Kazakhstan, 2015

Eve Miguel et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Bactrian camels; Kazakhstan; MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; bats; camelids; camels; central Asia; commercial flows; dromedary camels; mountain chain; respiratory infections; viruses.

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Density of camelids in Kazakhstan (extracted from the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Committee on Statistics, Department of Statistics; http://www.stat.gov.kz) and specimen collection for detection of Middle East respiratory syndrome virus, by species and region, 2015.
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