Current epidemiologic data suggest multiple zoonotic transmissions from an animal reservoir leading
to human infection, sometimes with secondary transmission events in humans.4 In
this study, we describe reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) detection,
isolation, and sequencing of MERS-CoV from a camel and from a patient who
died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.