Coronavirus respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia

被引:23
作者
Al-Ahdal, Mohammed N. [1 ]
Al-Qahtani, Ahmed A. [1 ,2 ]
Rubino, Salvatore [3 ]
机构
[1] King Faisal Specialist Hosp & Res Ctr, Dept Infect & Immun, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia
[2] King Saud Univ, Liver Dis Res Ctr, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
[3] Univ Sassari, Dipartimento Sci Biomed, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
来源
JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | 2012年 / 6卷 / 10期
关键词
Coronavirus; Saudi Arabia; Respiratory disease; Hajj Season;
D O I
10.3855/jidc.3084
中图分类号
R51 [传染病];
学科分类号
100401 ;
摘要
Although viruses that belong to the coronavirus family are known since the 1930s, they only gained public health attention when they were discovered to be the causative agent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in 2002-2003. On 22 September 2012, the Ministry of Health ( MOH) in Saudi Arabia announced the detection of what was described as a "rare pattern" of coronavirus respiratory infection in three individuals, two Saudi citizens and one person from the Gulf Region. Neither Saudi citizen survived the infection. Molecular analysis of the isolates showed that the virus belongs to the genus beta-coronavirus. It is not known if the new isolates are circulating in the population or has recently diverged. The emergence of these novel isolates that resulted in fatal human infection ascertains that health authorities all over the world must be vigilant for the possibility of new global pandemics due to novel viral infection.
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页码:692 / 694
页数:3
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