Microevolution of Outbreak-Associated Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, South Korea, 2015
Moon-Woo Seong
1, So Yeon Kim
1, Victor Max Corman
1, Taek Soo Kim, Sung Im Cho, Man Jin Kim, Seung Jun Lee, Jee-Soo Lee, Soo Hyun Seo, Ji Soo Ahn, Byeong Su Yu, Nare Park, Myoung-don Oh, Wan Beom Park, Ji Yeon Lee, Gayeon Kim, Joon Sung Joh, Ina Jeong, Eui Chong Kim, Christian Drosten
, and Sung Sup Park
Author affiliations: Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea (M.-W. Seong, T.S. Kim, S.I. Cho, M.J. Kim, S.J. Lee, J.-S. Lee, S.H. Seo, J.S. Ahn, B.S. Yu, N. Park, M.D. Oh, W.B. Park, E.C. Kim, S.S. Park); National Medical Center, Seoul (S.Y. Kim, J.Y. Lee, G. Kim, J.S. Joh, I. Jeong); University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (V.M. Corman, C. Drosten); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), (V.M. Corman, C. Drosten)
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Figure 1. Transmission tree timeline for 8 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus strains isolated during an outbreak in South Korea, 2015. Numbers without parentheses indicate patients in this study; numbers inside parentheses indicate patients not included in this study. The index case-patient is represented by (1). Numbers 1 and 2 following patient identification numbers indicate separate samples that were sequenced. The left edge of each shaded box indicates date of symptom onset for that patient; solid black vertical lines indicate sampling dates. Dashed vertical line indicates transmission from patient 14 to patient 76; (?) indicates unknown source of infection.
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