Infectious MERS-CoV Isolated From a Mildly Ill Patient, Saudi Arabia.
Hail M Al-AbdelyClaire M MidgleyAbdulrahim M AlkhamisGlen R AbediAzaibi TaminAlison M BinderKhalid AlanaziXiaoyan LuOsman AbdallaSenthilkumar K SakthivelMutaz MohammedKrista QueenHomoud S AlgarniYan LiSuvang TrivediAbdullah AlgwizaniRaafat F AlhakeemNatalie J ThornburgSuxiang TongSameeh S GhazalDean D ErdmanAbdullah M AssiriSusan I GerberJohn T WatsonPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2018)
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is associated with a wide range of clinical presentations, from asymptomatic or mildly ill to severe respiratory illness including death. We describe isolation of infectious MERS-CoV from the upper respiratory tract of a mildly ill 27-year-old female in Saudi Arabia 15 days after illness onset.