Table. MERS-CoV RNA and antibody positivity among humans, bats, camels, and other livestock, Sudan, 2015 and 2017*.
| Sample type | Location of sample collection | 2015 |
2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. samples | MERS-CoV RNA, no. positive/total no. (%) | MERS-CoV antibody, no. positive/total no. (%) | No. samples | MERS-CoV RNA, no. positive/total no. (%) | MERS-CoV antibody, no. positive/total no. (%) | |||
| Camel worker serum |
Tamboul slaughter area | 3 | NT | ND | 35 | NT | ND | |
| Tamboul market | 8 | NT | ND | NA | ||||
| TCRC |
7 |
NT |
ND |
|
3 |
NT |
ND |
|
| Camel serum† |
Tamboul slaughter areaठ| 4 | ND | 4/4 (100) | 13 | ND | 13/13 (100) | |
| Tamboul marketद | 27 | ND | 26/27 (96) | NA | ||||
| TCRC¶ | 31 | ND | 27/31 (87) | 25 | ND | 25/25 (100) | ||
| Qatar§¶# |
90 |
ND |
89/90 (99) |
|
NA |
|
|
|
| Camel nasopharyngeal swabs† |
TCRC¶ |
NA |
|
|
|
24 |
ND |
NT |
| Camel nasal swabs† |
Tamboul slaughter areaठ| 11 | ND | NT | NA | |||
| Tamboul marketद | 11 | ND | NT | NA | ||||
| TCRC¶ | 31 | ND | NT | 25 | ND | NT | ||
| Qatar§¶#** |
90 |
3/90 (3) |
NT |
|
NA |
|
|
|
| Camel ticks (Hyalomma dromedarii) from 25 camels |
TCRC |
155 |
ND |
NT |
|
NA |
|
|
| Other animal serum | ||||||||
| Cattle | Tamboul slaughter area | 6 | ND | ND | 9 | NT | ND | |
| Goat | Tamboul slaughter area | 5 | ND | ND | 10 | NT | ND | |
| Sheep | Tamboul slaughter area | 5 | ND | ND | 10 | NT | ND | |
| Donkey | Tamboul slaughter area | 5 | ND | ND | 9 | NT | ND | |
| Bat†† |
TCRC |
3 |
ND |
NT |
|
NA |
|
|
| Bat tissue‡‡ | TCRC | 13 | ND | NT | NA | |||
*MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; NA, not available; ND, not detected; NT, not tested; TCRC, Tamboul Camel Research Centre. †From camels >2 years of age. ‡Serum and swab samples received from the slaughter field and live animal market were not matched. §Sample set included meat camels. ¶Sample set included milk camels. #Sample set included race camels. **Just imported into Qatar from Sudan. ††Genus unknown. ‡‡Tadarida spp.; lung, intestine, and brain tissues stored in formalin.