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. Madani
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 3. Relationship between days since illness onset and upE Ct values for MERS-CoV from nasopharyngeal swabs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2014. Ct, cycle threshold; MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; upE, upstream of E gene.
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