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Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Dispatch

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 3 Persons, South Korea, 2015

Jeong-Sun Yang, SungHan Park, You-Jin Kim, Hae Ji Kang, Hak Kim, Young Woo Han, Han Saem Lee, Dae-Won Kim, A-Reum Kim, Deok Rim Heo, Joo Ae Kim, Su Jin Kim, Jeong-Gu Nam, Hee-Dong Jung, Hyang-Min Cheong, Kisoon Kim, Joo-Shil Lee, and Sung Soon KimComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, South Korea

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Table 2

Real-time reverse transcription PCR results for sputum samples serially collected from 3 patients infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, South Korea, 2015*

Date Patient 1 (index patient)
Patient 2†
Patient 3‡
Days after illness onset upE, Ct ORF1a, Ct Days after illness onset upE, Ct ORF1a, Ct Days after illness onset upE, Ct ORF1a, Ct
May 20 9 18.61 19.32 2 26.23 26.63 1 28.10 28.65
May 22 11 25.24 25.67 5 35.53 35.10 3 24.67 25.04
May 25 14 26.48 27.99 11 25.20 26.10 5 26.37 25.53
May 28 17 31.23 32.05 14 32.58 34.80 8 ND 35.94
May 31 20 36.94 ND 17 ND ND 11 26.30 28.01
Jun 4 24 ND 36.27 18 ND ND 14 ND ND
Jun 6 26 33.92 36.70 19 Discharged 15 Died
Jun 8 29 36.50 ND
Jun 9 30 36.90 37.46
Jun 12 33 ND ND
Jun15 36 ND ND
Jun 16 37 35.46 ND
Jun 17 38 ND ND
Jun 22 43 ND ND
Jun 23 44 32.97 36.31
Jun 26 47 ND ND
Jun 29 50 ND ND
Jun 30 51 ND ND

*Ct, cycle threshold; ND, not detected; ORF1a, open reading frame 1a gene; upE, upstream envelope protein gene. Blank cells indicate not applicable.
†Wife of index patient.
‡Shared hospital room with index patient.

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