Spread, Circulation, and Evolution of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Cotten, Matthew; J. Watson, Simon; Zumla, Alimuddin; Q. Makhdoom, Hatem; Palser, Anne; Hoe Ong, Swee; A. Al Rabeeah, Abdullah; F. Alhakeem, Rafat; M. Assiri, Abdullah; A. Al‐Tawfiq, Jaffar; Albarrak, Ali; Barry, Mazin; M. Shibl, Atef; Alrabiah, Fahad; Al Hajjar, Sami; H. Balkhy, Hanan; Flemban, Hesham; Rambaut, Andrew; Kellam, Paul; A. Memish, Ziad

doi:10.1128/mbio.01062-13

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Spread, Circulation, and Evolution of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Published in mBio • Feb 19, 2014

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Matthew Cotten

Simon J. Watson

Alimuddin Zumla

Abstract

UNLABELLED: The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first documented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in 2012 and, to date, has been identified in 180 cases with 43% mortality. In this study, we have determined the MERS-CoV evolutionary rate, documented genetic variants o...

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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

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