Emerging human middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus causes widespread infection and alveolar damage in human lungs.

Acknowledgment: The authors are grateful to Rosalind Simmonds, the staff within the Nuclear Medicine and Histopathology Department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Cambridge. They acknowledge the help of the Histopathology Departments at the Royal Brompton and Princess Alexandra Hospitals. They also thank the Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and BRC Core Biochemistry Assay Laboratory and acknowledge the support of the National Institute for Health Research, through the Comprehensive Clinical Research Network. The study was approved by Cambridgeshire Research Ethics Committee (09/H0308/ 119) and the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee of the UK (83/3130/25000).

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