Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research
Sequential Emergence and Wide Spread of Neutralization Escape Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Mutants, South Korea, 2015
Table
Baseline characteristics of MERS patients and associated MERS coronavirus spike genotypes identified from the 2015 MERS outbreak in South Korea.
Severity group | No. (%) |
Age, y, mean + SD | No. associated spike genotypes |
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Men | Women | WT | I529T | D510G | WT–I529T | WT–I529T–D510G | ||
I | 3 (50.0) | 3 (50.0) | 54 + 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
II | 9 (47.4) | 10 (52.6) | 46 + 11 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
III | 8 (75.0) | 4 (25.0) | 48 + 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
IV | 7 (63.6) | 4 (36.4) | 68 + 13 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; WT, wild-type.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
2These authors were co-principal investigators.
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