id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-305773-ikm1famj Lan, Bowen Clinical imaging research of the first Middle East respiratory syndrome in China 2015-11-23 .txt text/plain 1632 95 59 Based on the first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome found in China, a clinical research in combination with radiological findings was studied. Differential imaging diagnosis on the basis of epidemiological and experimental pathogen detection is helpful for clinical diagnosis of MERS, even in distinguishing from SARS and pneumonia caused by H7N9 avian influenza. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), also known as camel flu, is a viral respiratory illness caused by a novel human beta-coronavirus (CoV) [1e3] . On the sixth day after his hospitalization, MERS-COV was negative via the virological detection of sputum, and his body temperature had decreased to be normal, which indicated that the virus has a direct relationship with the fever. 1) Small pieces of high density shadows in the two lower lungs near the heart edge were observed during the early period via chest X-ray examination, suggesting that it firstly progressed to pneumonia (about one week). Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: chest CT findings ./cache/cord-305773-ikm1famj.txt ./txt/cord-305773-ikm1famj.txt