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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

"Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A coronavirus first reported in the summer of 2012 in a pneumonia patient in SAUDI ARABIA. It is related to SARS VIRUS. MERS-CoV has an estimated incubation period of 12 days and symptoms include renal failure and severe acute pneumonia with often fatal outcome.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2015
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