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Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Dispatch

Microevolution of Outbreak-Associated Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, South Korea, 2015

Moon-Woo Seong1, So Yeon Kim1, Victor Max Corman1, 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 DrostenComments to Author , and Sung Sup ParkComments to Author 
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 2

Location of the 13 variant nucleotide positions identified in genomes of 8 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus strains isolated during an outbreak in South Korea, 2015. Case-patient numbers are indicated on the left, as are GenBank accession numbers for 2 related strains. For each case, the top and bottom horizontal bars represent the genome sequence generated from the first and second samples, respectively. Letters indicate matching nucleotide positions between samples. Sample collecti

Figure 2. Location of the 13 variant nucleotide positions identified in genomes of 8 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus strains isolated during an outbreak in South Korea, 2015. Case-patient numbers are indicated on the left, as are GenBank accession numbers for 2 related strains. For each case, the top and bottom horizontal bars represent the genome sequence generated from the first and second samples, respectively. Letters indicate matching nucleotide positions between samples. Sample collection dates are shown in Table 1. E, small envelope gene; M, matrix gene; N, nucleocapsid gene; ORF, open reading frame.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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