Negative-stain transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showing a MERS-CoV particle with club-shaped surface projections surrounding the periphery of the particle, which is a characteristic feature of coronaviruses. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a novel coronavirus (nCoV) first reported on 24 September 2012 by Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He isolated and identified a previously unknown coronavirus from the lungs of a 60-year-old male patient with acute pneumonia and acute renal failure. MERS-CoV is the sixth new type of coronaviru

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Negative-stain transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showing a MERS-CoV particle with club-shaped surface projections surrounding the periphery of the particle, which is a characteristic feature of coronaviruses. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a novel coronavirus (nCoV) first reported on 24 September 2012 by Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He isolated and identified a previously unknown coronavirus from the lungs of a 60-year-old male patient with acute pneumonia and acute renal failure. MERS-CoV is the sixth new type of coronavirus like SARS (but still distinct from it and from the common-cold coronavirus).

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