Surveillance for Coronaviruses in Bats, Lebanon and Egypt, 2013–2015
Mahmoud M. Shehata
1, Daniel K.W. Chu
1, Mokhtar R. Gomaa, Mounir AbiSaid, Rabeh El Shesheny, Ahmed Kandeil, Ola Bagato, Samuel M.S. Chan, Elie K. Barbour, Houssam S. Shaib, Pamela McKenzie, Richard Webby, Mohamed A. Ali, Myoung-don Oh
, Ghazi Kayali
, and Mounir AbiSaid
Author affiliations: National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt (M.M. Shehata, M.R. Gomaa, R. El Shesheny, A. Kandeil, O. Bagato, M.A. Ali); The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (D.K.W. Chu, S.M.S. Chan, M. Peiris); Lebanese University, Al Fanar, Lebanon (M. AbiSaid); Animal Encounter, Aley, Lebanon (M. AbiSaid); King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (E.K. Barbour); American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (E.K. Barbour, H.S. Shaib); St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (P.P. McKenzie, R.J. Webby, G. Kayali)
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Figure. Phylogenetic tree of the coronavirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene. This tree was constructed on the basis of a sequence alignment of 330 bp using the neighbor-joining method. Bold text indicates sequences found in this study. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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