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Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Dispatch

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Seropositivity in Camel Handlers and Their Families, Pakistan

Jian Zheng1, Sohail Hassan1Comments to Author , Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Abeer N. Alshukairi, Nabil M.S. Amor, Nadia Mukhtar, Iqra Maleeha Nazeer, Zarfishan Tahir, Nadeem Akhter, Stanley PerlmanComments to Author , and Tahir Yaqub
Author affiliations: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA (J. Zheng, S. Perlman); University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan (S. Hassan, I.M. Nazeer, T. Yaqub); King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (A.N. Alagaili, N.M.S. Amor); King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (A.N. Alshukairi); Government of Punjab, Lahore (N. Mukhtar, Z. Tahir, N. Akhter); The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China (S. Perlman)

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Table 1

Characteristics of participants in study of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus seropositivity in camel handlers and their families, Pakistan

Characteristic No. (%) participants
Lifestyle
Sedentary 10 (10)
Seminomadic 64 (64)
Nomadic
 26 (26)
Concurrent conditions 21 (21)
Consumption of unpasteurized camel milk 98 (98)
Tobacco use 38 (38)

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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