ArticleTropical animal health and production2016
MERS and the dromedary camel trade between Africa and the Middle East.
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- Transboundary Animal Diseases Associated With Cross-Border Camel Movement. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Seroprevalence and risk factors of brucellosis in dromedary camels (The veterinary quarterly · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of MERS-CoV seroprevalence and RNA prevalence in dromedary camels: Implications for animal vaccination.Epidemics · 2019Pooled it
- Global status of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in dromedary camels: a systematic review.Epidemiology and infection · 2019Pooled it
- Antibody kinetics and shedding dynamics of MERS-CoV in dromedary camels from different production systems in Kenya: a longitudinal cohort study.Tropical animal health and production · 2026Article
- Low Prevalence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Camel-Exposed Patients Presenting with Respiratory Symptoms in Northern Kenya.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Risk Factors of Bacterial Pathogens Causing Camel Calf Diarrhea in Shabeley and Kebribayah Districts, Fafan Zone, Eastern Ethiopia.Veterinary medicine international · 2025Article
- ACE2-using merbecoviruses: Further evidence of convergent evolution of ACE2 recognition by NeoCoV and other MERS-CoV related viruses.Cell insight · 2024Review
- Molecular Epidemiology and Species Diversity of Tick-Borne Pathogens of Animals in Egypt: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Genetic diversity of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in imported and domestic camels in Saudi Arabia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices on camel respiratory diseases and conditions in Garissa and Isiolo, Kenya.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Review on camel production and marketing status in Ethiopia.Pastoralism : research, policy and practice · 2022Review
- Overview of Bat and Wildlife Coronavirus Surveillance in Africa: A Framework for Global Investigations.Viruses · 2021Review
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus Seropositive Bactrian Camels, Mongolia.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Emergence of Bat-Related Betacoronaviruses: Hazard and Risks.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Some pathological observations on the naturally infected dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) with the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia 2018-2019.The veterinary quarterly · 2020Article
- High MERS-CoV seropositivity associated with camel herd profile, husbandry practices and household socio-demographic characteristics in Northern Kenya.Epidemiology and infection · 2020Article
- COVID-19: Time to exonerate the pangolin from the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Limited transmissibility of coronavirus (SARS-1, MERS, and SARS-2) in certain regions of Africa.Journal of medical virology · 2020Article
- Seroprevalence of Dromedary Camel HEV in Domestic and Imported Camels from Saudi Arabia.Viruses · 2020Article
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Abstract
Dromedary camels are the most likely source for the coronavirus that sporadically causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in humans. Serological results from archived camel sera provide evidence for circulation of MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) among dromedary camels in the Greater Horn of Africa as far back as 1983 and in Saudi Arabia as far back as 1992. High seroprevalences of MERS-CoV antibodies and the high virus prevalence in Saudi Arabian dromedary camels indicate an endemicity of the virus in the Arabian Peninsula, which predates the 2012 human MERS index case. Saudi Arabian dromedary camels show significantly higher MERS-CoV carrier rates than dromedary camels imported from Africa. Two MERS-CoV lineages identified in Nigerian camels were found to be genetically distinct from those found in camels and humans in the Middle East. This supports the hypothesis that camel imports from Africa are not of significance for circulation of the virus in camel populations of the Arabian Peninsula.
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