Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus – two years into the epidemic

摘要

Asecond paper in this issue by Nowotny and Kolodziejek provides further evidence that the MERS-CoV is likely a zoonosis with camels playing a role as a reservoir for the virus as well as a possible source for transmission to humans, potentially through the respiratory route [6]. Still other transmission routes, e.g. foodborne, ora combination of routes cannot be excluded according to van Doremalen et al. [7].