Esam I. Azhar

TL;DR: The epidemiology, virology, clinical features and current treatment strategies of SARS and MERS are summarized, and the discovery and development of new virus-based and host-based therapeutic options for CoV infections are discussed.

TL;DR: The isolation and sequencing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus obtained from a dromedary camel and from a patient who died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection after close contact with camels that had rhinorrhea suggest that this fatal case of human MSPV infection was transmitted throughclose contact with an infected camel.

TL;DR: It is shown that the use of culturomics allows the culture of organisms corresponding to sequences previously not assigned, which doubles the number of species isolated at least once from the human gut.

TL;DR: The timing of interferon treatment in patients with sepsis, resulting in increased survival, is studied and expansion of anti-2019nCoV-specific T cells, as cellular drugs, could aid to prepare T-cell products for the adjunct treatment of patients with severe 2019-n coV infection.

TL;DR: A comprehensive update and synthesis of the latest available data on the epidemiology, determinants, and risk factors of primary, household, and nosocomial transmission of MERS-CoV are provided, and measures to reduce risk of transmission are suggested.