Confronting the persisting threat of the Middle East respiratory syndrome to global health security

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Electronic address: stanley-perlman@uiowa.edu.
• ² Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Centre and Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ³ Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine and Department of Research, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Health and College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Respiratory Medicine and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁵ Division of Infection and Immunity, Center for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.