Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2016)

Variations in Spike Glycoprotein Gene of MERS-CoV, South Korea, 2015

  • Dae-Won Kim,
  • You-Jin Kim,
  • Sung Han Park,
  • Mi-Ran Yun,
  • Jeong-Sun Yang,
  • Hae Ji Kang,
  • Young Woo Han,
  • Han Saem Lee,
  • Heui Man Kim,
  • Hak Kim,
  • A-Reum Kim,
  • Deok Rim Heo,
  • Su Jin Kim,
  • Jun Ho Jeon,
  • Deokbum Park,
  • Joo Ae Kim,
  • Hyang-Min Cheong,
  • Jeong-Gu Nam,
  • Kisoon Kim,
  • Sung Soon Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2201.151055
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 1
pp. 100 – 104

Abstract

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An outbreak of nosocomial infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus occurred in South Korea in May 2015. Spike glycoprotein genes of virus strains from South Korea were closely related to those of strains from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, virus strains from South Korea showed strain-specific variations.

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