Isolation of MERS Coronavirus from a Dromedary Camel, Qatar, 2014
V. Stalin Raj
1, Elmoubasher A.B.A. Farag
1, Chantal B.E.M. Reusken, Mart M. Lamers, Suzan D. Pas, Jolanda Voermans, Saskia L. Smits, Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, Naema Al-Mawlawi, Hamad E. Al-Romaihi, Mohd M. AlHajri
, Ahmed M. El-Sayed, Khaled A. Mohran, Hazem Ghobashy, Farhoud Alhajri, Mohamed Al-Thani, Salih A. Al-Marri, Mamdouh M. El-Maghraby, Marion P.G. Koopmans, and Bart L. Haagmans
Author affiliations: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (V. Stalin Raj, C.B.E.M. Reusken, M.M. Lamers, S.D. Pas, J. Voermans, S.L. Smits, A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, M.P.G. Koopmans, B.L. Haagmans); Supreme Council of Health, Doha , Qatar (E.A.B.A. Farag, H.E. Al-Romaihi, M.M. AlHajri, A.M. El-Sayed, M. Al-Thani, S.A. Al-Marri); Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha (N. Al-Mawlawi); Ministry of Environment, Doha (K.A. Mohran, H. Ghobashy, F. Alhajri, M.M. El-Maghraby)
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Figure 1. Phylogenetic analysis of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (MERS-CoVs)Genome sequences of representative isolates were aligned by using ClustalW, and a phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the PhyML method in Seaview 4 (all 3 software packages can be found at http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview) and was visualized in FigTree version 1.3.1 (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/)Values at branches show the result of the approximate likelihood ratio; values <0.70 are not shownThe MERS-CoV isolated from a dromedary camel in Qatar in 2014 is depicted in a rectangleScale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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