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Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Research

Association of Higher MERS-CoV Virus Load with Severe Disease and Death, Saudi Arabia, 2014

Daniel R. Feikin, Basem M. Alraddadi, Mohammed Qutub, Omaima Shabouni, Aaron Curns, Ikwo K. Oboho, Sara M. Tomczyk, Bernard J. Wolff, John T. Watson, and Tariq A. MadaniComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D.R. Feikin, A. Curns, I.K. Oboho, S.M. Tomczyk, B. Wolff, J.T. Watson); Ministry of Health, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (B. Al-Raddadi, M. Qutub, O. Shabouni, T.A. Madani); King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah (B. Al-Raddadi, M. Qutub); King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah (T.A. Madani)

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Figure 1

Box plot of Ct values for MERS-CoV patients by specimen type, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2014. Box and whiskers plot features are as follows: central line in box is median, bottom line of box is first quartile (25%), top line of box is third quartile (75%), diamond is mean, bottom of whiskers is first quarter minus 1.5 × interquartile range, top of whiskers is third quarter plus 1.5 × interquartile range, and dots are outliers. Groups were compared by using the Kruskal-Wallis test, p<0.0001. Ct

Figure 1. Box plot of Ct values for MERS-CoV patients by specimen type, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2014. Box and whiskers plot features are as follows: central line in box is median, bottom line of box is first quartile (25%), top line of box is third quartile (75%), diamond is mean, bottom of whiskers is first quarter minus 1.5 × interquartile range, top of whiskers is third quarter plus 1.5 × interquartile range, and dots are outliers. Groups were compared by using the Kruskal-Wallis test, p<0.0001. Ct , cycle threshold; MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; upE, upstream of E gene.

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