Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2016)

Deletion Variants of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus from Humans, Jordan, 2015

  • Mart M. Lamers,
  • V. Stalin Raj,
  • Mah’d Shafei,
  • Sami Sheikh Ali,
  • Sultan M. Abdallh,
  • Mahmoud Gazo,
  • Samer Nofal,
  • Xiaoyan Lu,
  • Dean D. Erdman,
  • Marion Koopmans,
  • Mohammad Abdallat,
  • Bart L. Haagmans,
  • Bart L. Haagmans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2204.152065
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 4
pp. 716 – 719

Abstract

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We characterized Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses from a hospital outbreak in Jordan in 2015. The viruses from Jordan were highly similar to isolates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, except for deletions in open reading frames 4a and 3. Transmissibility and pathogenicity of this strain remains to be determined.

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