Recent CDC Evaluation of Commercial MERS MDx Could be Boon in Light of New Outbreak

Jun 09, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In April, at the Clinical Virology Symposium in Daytona Beach, Florida, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented a small, preliminary evaluation of three commercial assays for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, also called MERS or MERS-CoV.

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