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Saudi MERS-CoV Genomic Investigation and Surveillance Series
A sequence of linked national outbreak and zoonotic investigations using MERS-CoV genomes to reconstruct transmission and monitor viral diversity.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Saudi human outbreaks and dromedary-camel surveillance sites
- Project type
- Episodic national pathogen-genomic investigation series
- Research domain
- MERS-CoV transmission, evolution and zoonotic surveillance
- Years
- 2013–
- Lifecycle status
- episodic
- Status basis
- National teams produced early human genomes in 2013, used full-genome sequencing in later outbreak investigations, and generated camel MERS genomes from 2023-2024 surveillance published in 2025.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-01-01
- Scale
- Early 2013 work reported 32 complete/partial genomes (20 at least 99% complete); a 2023-2024 camel study sequenced 42 MERS-CoV genomes from 558 swabs plus seven 229E-related camel coronavirus genomes.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Saudi Ministry of Health · Saudi Public Health Authority / former Saudi CDC · KSA MERS-CoV Investigation Team
- Partner organizations
- World Health Organization · Saudi and international research laboratories
- Organism / population
- MERS-CoV from human cases and dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- coronavirus whole-genome sequencing
- phylogenetics
- human outbreak metadata
- camel surveillance
Data access
Paper-specific public sequence accessions and WHO outbreak summaries
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Sustained national pathogen-genomics capability evidenced across multiple outbreaks and zoonotic surveillance periods, despite lacking one enduring brand.
Editorial note
Not a single stable branded project; retained as an episodic historical-to-current series. Do not add overlapping 2013 genome counts from different papers.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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