Assessment of the MERS-CoV epidemic situation in the Middle East region
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1Inserm, U707, Paris, France 2UPMC Univ Paris 06, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR S 707, Paris, France 3Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Turin, Italy 4ATIP/Avenir Inserm, U738, Paris, France 5Univ Paris 07, Faculté de Médecine Bichat, Paris, France 6Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS), St Maurice Cedex, 94415, France 7 Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard
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تاریخ انتشار 2013