Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
The New England journal of medicine·
- DOI
- 10.1056/nejmoa1211721
- PMID
- 23075143
- PMCID
- —
- OpenAlex
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- Study type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Publisher unavailable
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
The original MERS-CoV isolation record for linking later MERS surveillance to its pathogen-discovery context.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
What novel coronavirus was isolated from a severe pneumonia case in Saudi Arabia?
Study design
Pathogen isolation and characterization study.
Population and setting
A pneumonia case in Saudi Arabia.
Main findings
This field has not yet received a quality-gated evidence summary. Consult the original article.
Public-health relevance
Provides the historical pathogen-discovery anchor for MERS surveillance.
Important limitations
Limitations could not be fully assessed from the available metadata.
GIDS interpretation
Use as MERS baseline context for later outbreak and surveillance records.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 8 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.