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Published on: November 10, 2023
Middle East respiratory syndrome vaccines
Stanley Perlman1, Rahul Vijay1
1Department of Microbiology, BSB 3-712, University of Iowa, 51 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Abstract:
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has infected over 1600 individuals with nearly 600 deaths since it was first identified in human populations in 2012. No antiviral therapies or vaccines are available for its treatment or prophylaxis. Approaches to the development of MERS vaccines are discussed herein, including a summary of previous efforts to develop vaccines useful against human and non-human coronaviruses. A striking feature of MERS is the important role that camels have in transmission. Camel vaccination may be a novel approach to preventing human infection.
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