brief report The new engl and jour nal of medicine n engl j med 367;19 nejm.org november 8, 2012 1814 Isolation of a Novel Coronavirus from a Man with Pneumonia in Saudi Arabia Ali Moh Zaki, M.D., Ph.D., Sander van Boheemen, M.Sc., Theo M. Bestebroer, B.Sc., Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, D.V.M., Ph.D., and Ron A.M. Fouchier, Ph.D. From the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (A.M.Z.); and the Viroscience Lab, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (S.B., T.M.B., A.D.M.E.O., R.A.M.F.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Fouchier at the Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015GE Rotterdam, the Netherlands, or at