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. 2014 Aug 28;2(10):813–822. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70158-4

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Tissue tropism of human and camel MERS-CoV in human respiratory tract tissues

Figure shows ex-vivo cultures of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections of bronchus and lung. Immunohistochemical staining of MERS-CoV N protein (stained by vector red in pink) in the human bronchus and lung cultures were determined at 24 and 72 h post infection. (A) Mock virus. (B) Human MERS-CoV EMC. (C) MERS-CoV Dromedary/Al-Hasa-KFU-HKU13/2013 (AH13). (D) MERS-CoV Dromedary/Al-Hasa-KFU-HKU19D/2013 (AH19D). (E) MERS-CoV Dromedary/Egypt-NRCE-HKU270/2013 (NRCE-HKU270). MERS-CoV=Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. hpi=hours post infection.