Severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, in a patient transferred to the United Kingdom from the Middle East, September 2012

A Bermingham; M A Chand; C S Brown; E Aarons; C Tong; C Langrish; K Hoschler; K Brown; M Galiano; R Myers; R G Pebody; H K Green; N L Boddington; R Gopal; N Price; W Newsholme; C Drosten; R A Fouchier; M Zambon

doi:10.2807/ese.17.40.20290-en

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Severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, in a patient transferred to the United Kingdom from the Middle East, September 2012
A Bermingham¹ , M A Chand¹ , C S Brown^1,2 , E Aarons³ , C Tong³ , C Langrish³ , K Hoschler¹ , K Brown¹ , M Galiano¹ , R Myers¹ , R G Pebody¹ , H K Green¹ , N L Boddington¹ , R Gopal¹ , N Price³ , W Newsholme³ , C Drosten⁴ , R A Fouchier⁵ , M Zambon¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Health Protection Agency (HPA), London, United Kingdom ² Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, King’s College London, London, England ³ Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom ⁴ Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany ⁵ Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Bermingham A, Chand M A, Brown C S, Aarons E, Tong C, Langrish C, Hoschler K, Brown K, Galiano M, Myers R, Pebody R G, Green H K, Boddington N L, Gopal R, Price N, Newsholme W, Drosten C, Fouchier R A, Zambon M. Severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, in a patient transferred to the United Kingdom from the Middle East, September 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(40):pii=20290. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.17.40.20290-en Received: 27 Sept 2012

Abstract

Coronaviruses have the potential to cause severe transmissible human disease, as demonstrated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003. We describe here the clinical and virological features of a novel coronavirus infection causing severe respiratory illness in a patient transferred to London, United Kingdom, from the Gulf region of the Middle East.