Growth and Quantification of MERS-CoV Infection.

Growth and Quantification of MERS-CoV Infection. Curr Protoc Toxicol. 2015;64:15E.2.1-9 Authors: Coleman CM, Frieman MB Abstract Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an emerging highly pathogenic respiratory virus. Although MERS-CoV only emerged in 2012, we and others have developed assays to grow and quantify infectious MERS-CoV and RNA products of replication in vitro. MERS-CoV is able to infect a range of cell types, but replicates to high titers in Vero E6 cells. Protocols for the propagation and quantification of MERS-CoV are presented. © 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. PMID: 26344222 [PubMed - in process]
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