Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Dispatch
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 3 Persons, South Korea, 2015
Table 2
Real-time reverse transcription PCR results for sputum samples serially collected from 3 patients infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, South Korea, 2015*
Date | Patient 1 (index patient) |
Patient 2† |
Patient 3‡ |
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Days after illness onset | upE, Ct | ORF1a, Ct | Days after illness onset | upE, Ct | ORF1a, Ct | Days after illness onset | upE, Ct | ORF1a, Ct | |||
May 20 | 9 | 18.61 | 19.32 | 2 | 26.23 | 26.63 | 1 | 28.10 | 28.65 | ||
May 22 | 11 | 25.24 | 25.67 | 5 | 35.53 | 35.10 | 3 | 24.67 | 25.04 | ||
May 25 | 14 | 26.48 | 27.99 | 11 | 25.20 | 26.10 | 5 | 26.37 | 25.53 | ||
May 28 | 17 | 31.23 | 32.05 | 14 | 32.58 | 34.80 | 8 | ND | 35.94 | ||
May 31 | 20 | 36.94 | ND | 17 | ND | ND | 11 | 26.30 | 28.01 | ||
Jun 4 | 24 | ND | 36.27 | 18 | ND | ND | 14 | ND | ND | ||
Jun 6 | 26 | 33.92 | 36.70 | 19 | Discharged | 15 | Died | ||||
Jun 8 | 29 | 36.50 | ND | ||||||||
Jun 9 | 30 | 36.90 | 37.46 | ||||||||
Jun 12 | 33 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun15 | 36 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun 16 | 37 | 35.46 | ND | ||||||||
Jun 17 | 38 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun 22 | 43 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun 23 | 44 | 32.97 | 36.31 | ||||||||
Jun 26 | 47 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun 29 | 50 | ND | ND | ||||||||
Jun 30 | 51 | ND | ND |
*Ct, cycle threshold; ND, not detected; ORF1a, open reading frame 1a gene; upE, upstream envelope protein gene. Blank cells indicate not applicable.
†Wife of index patient.
‡Shared hospital room with index patient.