Fig. 1
From: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission
A timeline of some key scientific milestones, mass gatherings of relevance and clusters and outbreaks of interest to the understanding of MERS-CoV infection among humans and transmission from animals to humans. A yellow circle indicates when a country reported a laboratory confirmed detection and an orange circle denotes ensuing local transmission. A sample of the mentions of DC contact prior to disease is indicated by a black camel icon. DPP4-dipeptidyl peptidase 4; KSA-the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Mab-monoclonal antibody; rAdV-recombinant adenovirus; rMVA-recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara; UAE-United Arab Emirates