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VACCINE
Volume 34, Issue 26, Pages 2982-2987Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.03.104
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; Coronavirus; Vaccine; Research; Development
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), an emerging infectious disease of growing global importance, has caused severe acute respiratory disease in more than 1600 people, resulting in more than 600 deaths. The high case fatality rate, growing geographic distribution and vaguely defined epidemiology of MERS-CoV have created an urgent need for effective public health countermeasures, paramount of which is an effective means of prevention through a vaccine or antibody prophylaxis. Despite the relatively few number of cases to-date, research and development of MERS-CoV vaccine candidates is advancing quickly. This review surveys the landscape of these efforts across multiple groups in academia, government and industry. (C) 2016 World Health Organization; licensee Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licensesThy/3.0/).
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