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ArticleViruses2018

Reported Direct and Indirect Contact with Dromedary Camels among Laboratory-Confirmed MERS-CoV Cases.

Romy Conzade, Rebecca Grant, Mamunur Rahman Malik, Amgad Elkholy, Mohamed Elhakim, Dalia Samhouri, Peter K Ben Embarek, Maria D Van Kerkhove

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Article in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Decoding antibody response to MERS-CoV in wild dromedary camels.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Variable DPP4 expression in multiciliated cells of the human nasal epithelium as a determinant for MERS-CoV tropism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. MERS-CoV Found inViruses · 2023
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  17. Full GenomeFrontiers in public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Romy ConzadeDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. romy.conzade@helmholtz-muenchen.de.
Rebecca GrantDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. grantr@who.int.
Mamunur Rahman MalikDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 11371 Cairo, Egypt. malikm@who.int.
Amgad ElkholyDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 11371 Cairo, Egypt. elkholya@who.int.
Mohamed ElhakimDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 11371 Cairo, Egypt. elhakimm@who.int.ORCID 0000-0001-5785-1592
Dalia SamhouriDepartment of Country Preparedness and International Health Regulations, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 11371 Cairo, Egypt. samhourid@who.int.
Peter K Ben EmbarekDepartment of Food Safety and Zoonoses, World Health Organization, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland. benembarekp@who.int.
Maria D Van KerkhoveDepartment of Infectious Hazard Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. vankerkhovem@who.int.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dromedary camels (

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AdultAgedAnimalsCamelusCoronavirus InfectionsDisease ReservoirsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusRetrospective StudiesSaudi ArabiaWorld Health OrganizationZoonosesdromedary camelsMERS-CoVzoonotic transmission

Identifiers

PMID30104551
PMCPMC6115845

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