Camel exposure and knowledge about MERS-CoV among Australian Hajj pilgrims in 2014

Virol Sin. 2016 Feb;31(1):89-93. doi: 10.1007/s12250-015-3669-1.

Amani Salem Alqahtani^{1

2}, Kerrie Elizabeth Wiley^{3

4}, Mohamed Tashani³, Anita Elizabeth Heywood⁵, Harold Wayne Willaby⁴, Nasser Fahad BinDhim⁶, Robert Booy^{3

7

8}, Harunor Rashid^{3

7}

¹ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia. amani.alqahtani@health.nsw.gov.au.
² School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. amani.alqahtani@health.nsw.gov.au.
³ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.
⁴ School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
⁵ School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2033, Australia.
⁶ Health Informatics Department, College of Health Sciences, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, 11461, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and High Consequence/High Visibility Events, Flinders University, Adelaide, 5001, Australia.

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