Table 1.

Lesion scoring of the MERS-CoV natural infected dromedary camels.

Organ	Lesion	Animal no
		1	2	3
Nasal turbinate	Exfoliation of the epithelial cells (Fig. 2A)	+++	+	++
	Propria-submucosal lesions (Figs. 2B and C)	+++	+	++
	Focal areas of epithelial hyperplasia	+	+	+
Trachea	Partial loss of cilia, epithelial vacuolation and intra-epithelial infiltration with neutrophils (Fig 2D)	–	–	++
Bronchi	Hyperplasia of bronchial epithelia	–	+	+
Lungs	Interstitial pneumonia (Figs. 2E and Fig 3)	++	+++	+++
	Bronchopneumonia with many segmented neutrophils in bronchioli and alveoli	–	+++	–
Spleen	chronic hyperplasia with widened red pulp and depleted white pulp	–	–	+
Kidney	Glomerular and tubular lesions (Fig 2F).	++	+	++