Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus

Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (MERS-CoV), or EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC/2012), is the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). It is a species of coronavirus which infects humans, bats, and camels. The infecting virus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which enters its host cell by binding to the DPP4 receptor. The species is a member of the genus Betacoronavirus and subgenus Merbecovirus.

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Total Publications

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4,362

Prior Five Years

3,326

Total Citations

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281,182

Prior Five Years

245,755

Total Scholars

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12,385

Prior Five Years

12,111

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Academic Institutions Lifetime		Academic Institutions Prior Five Years		Non-academic Institutions Lifetime
#1	University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	#1	University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	#1	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health United States
#2	Fudan University China	#2	Wuhan University China	#2	World Health Organization Switzerland
#3	Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	#3	Kyoto University Japan	#3	King Saud Medical City Saudi Arabia
#4	Kyoto University Japan	#4	Hokkaido University Japan	#4	Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology China
#5	Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	#5	Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong	#5	Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention China
#6	Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences China	#6	Georgia State University United States	#6	China-Japan Friendship Hospital China
#7	Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong	#7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	#7	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
#8	Hokkaido University Japan	#8	Johns Hopkins University United States	#8	National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Netherlands
#9	Johns Hopkins University United States	#9	National Taiwan University Taiwan	#9	Japan Science and Technology Agency Japan
#10	Georgia State University United States	#10	Fudan University China		Show More
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