Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Dispatch
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 3 Persons, South Korea, 2015
Table 1
Real-time reverse transcription PCR results for 2 patients infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, South Korea, 2015*
Sample | Index patient (day 9 after illness onset) |
Wife of index patient (day 2 after illness onset) |
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upE, Ct | ORF1a, Ct | upE, Ct | ORF1a, Ct | ||
Sputum | 18.61 | 19.32 | 26.23 | 26.63 | |
Nasal swab | 29.34 | 29.58 | ND | 36.64 | |
Nasopharyngeal aspirate | 29.35 | 31.45 | NT | NT | |
Serum | 34.81 | 35.50 | ND | ND | |
Urine | ND | ND | 34.34 | ND |
*Ct, cycle threshold; ND, not detected; NT, not tested; ORF1a, open reading frame 1a gene; upE, upstream envelope protein gene.