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The Phylogeography of MERS-CoV in Hospital Outbreak-Associated Cases Compared to Sporadic Cases in Saudi Arabia.
Viruses - 14 May 2020
Chen Xin, Adam Dillon Charles, Chughtai Abrar Ahmad, Stelzer-Braid Sacha, Scotch Matthew, MacIntyre Chandini Raina
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This study compared the phylogeography of MERS-CoV between hospital outbreak-associated cases and sporadic cases in Saudi Arabia. We collected complete genome sequences from human samples in Saudi Arabia and data on the multiple risk factors of human MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia reported from 2012 to 2018. By matching each sequence to human cases, we identified isolates as hospital outbreak-associated cases or...
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