Molecular Epidemiology of SARS-associated Coronavirus, Beijing
Wei Liu*, Fang Tang*, Arnaud Fontanet†, Lin Zhan*, Tian-Bao Wang‡, Pan-He Zhang*, Yi-He Luan‡, Chao-Yang Cao‡, Qiu-Min Zhao*, Xiao-Ming Wu*, Zhong-Tao Xin§, Shu-Qing Zuo*, Laurence Baril†, Astrid Vabret¶, Yi-Ming Shao#, Hong Yang*, and Wu-Chun Cao*
Author affiliations: *Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People's Republic of China; †Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ‡Beijing Armed Force Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China; §Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China; ¶Caen University, Caen, France; #Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Figure. . pidemiologic and phylogenetic links between patients of different worldwide SARS outbreaks (4,10,11,12). New information that concerns the Beijing epidemic is represented in boldface. Epidemiologic links that are still speculative are in dotted lines.
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