A Review of Novel Coronavirus, cause of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Isolation of a novel virus belonging to coronavirdae family in September 2012، from patients in Middle East who had died of an acute respiratory illness & renal failure lead to researches on this new virus. Here، a brief review to summarize the events of scientific findings of this new emerging virus. This review is based on a comprehensive search of three databases (Pubmed، Embase and Cochrane) and WHO reports. The searched keywords were new coronavirus، Middle East، acute respieratory distress syndrom & Saudi Arabia. Due to novelty of virus only limited papers exist on searched databases، so only 50 papers were identified which after omitting repeated case reports، papers related to SARS and updated WHO reports، 30 papers were finally reviewed. WHO recommendation is evaluation of all patients with acute respiratory illness and history of travel to Saudi Arabia or other countries where this novel virus is epidemic.