MERS Virus May Also Infect Humans Through Intestinal Tract (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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MERS Virus May Also Infect Humans Through Intestinal Tract (1 of 3)

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The human intestinal tract may serve as alternative route of infection for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 15, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Zhou at University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Human intestinal tract serves as an alternative infection route for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.'

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