Discovery of small molecule therapeutics for the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

• Main Author: Gan, Jonathan Hanjie
• Other Authors: Yoon Ho Sup
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137291
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a coronavirus infection which affects the lower respiratory tract of infected individuals. Its high mortality rate of 34.5% led MERS to be listed as a high priority disease for research by the World Health Organisation (WHO). MERS can be both symptomatic...