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MeSH Heading: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Tree Number(s): B04.820.578.500.540.150.113.750
Unique ID: D065207
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D065207
Annotation: infection: coordinate with MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME see CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS
Scope Note: A coronavirus first reported in the summer of 2012 in a pneumonia patient in SAUDI ARABIA. It is related to SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME-RELATED CORONAVIRUS. MERS-CoV has an estimated incubation period of 12 days and symptoms include renal failure and severe acute pneumonia with often fatal outcome.
Entry Term(s): MERS Virus; MERS-CoV; Merbecovirus; Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
Registry Number: txid1335626
Related Numbers: txid2509494
Previous Indexing: Coronavirus (2013-2014)
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2022/07/15

Allowable Qualifiers: chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

drug effects (DE)

enzymology (EN)

genetics (GE)

growth & development (GD)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pathogenicity (PY)

physiology (PH)

radiation effects (RE)

ultrastructure (UL)

Concept UI: M0588347
Registry Number: txid1335626
Related Numbers: txid2509494
Scope Note: A coronavirus first reported in the summer of 2012 in a pneumonia patient in SAUDI ARABIA. It is related to SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME-RELATED CORONAVIRUS. MERS-CoV has an estimated incubation period of 12 days and symptoms include renal failure and severe acute pneumonia with often fatal outcome.
Terms: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Preferred Term
Term UI T850127
Date10/22/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); MERS Virus
Term UI T000909488
Date10/13/2016
LexicalTag ABX
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus
Term UI T000909489
Date10/13/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); MERS-CoV
Term UI T851205
Date11/20/2013
LexicalTag ABB
ThesaurusID NLM (2015)

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus MeSH Descriptor Data 2023