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Volume 32, Number 11—November 2026

Research

Global Genomic Surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

James Richard Otieno, Ahmed Mohammed Albarraq, Francis Amirtharaj Selvaraj, Amna Omair Al Mehairi, Esam Ibraheem Azhar, Christopher Ruis, Hasan Zackaria Ali Ishaq, Asma Abi Mohamed Shah, Zelalem Tadesse, Qiu Yu, Ihab El Masry, Hala Abou El Naja, Belinda L. Herring, Amal Barakat, Maria Van Kerkhove, Sophie von Dobschuetz, and Lorenzo SubissiComments to Author 
Author affiliation: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J.R. Otieno, M. Van Kerkhove, S. von Dobschuetz, L. Subissi); Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (A.M. Albarraq); PureLab, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (F.A. Selvaraj, A.O. Al Mehairi); Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (F.A. Selvaraj); King Fahd Medical Research Center and Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (E.I. Azhar); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (C. Ruis); Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, Abu Dhabi (H.Z.A. Ishaq, A.A.M. Shah); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (Z. Tadesse, Q. Yu, I. El Masry); World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt (H.A. El Naja, A. Barakat); World Health Organization, Manila, the Philippines (B.L. Herring).

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Figure 4

Temporal and regional distribution of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus sequences for each clade described during global genomic surveillance, 2012–2025. A) Clade B, n = 721; B) clade C, n = 83; C) clade A, n = 3. Bar colors indicate World Health Organization region: gold, Africa Region (AFR); magenta, Region of the Americas (AMR); green, Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR); black, European Region (EUR); blue, South-East Asia Region (SEAR); red, Western Pacific Region (WPR).

Figure 4. Temporal and regional distribution of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus sequences for each clade described during global genomic surveillance, 2012–2025. A) Clade B, n = 721; B) clade C, n = 83; C) clade A, n = 3. Bar colors indicate World Health Organization region: gold, Africa Region (AFR); magenta, Region of the Americas (AMR); green, Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR); black, European Region (EUR); blue, South-East Asia Region (SEAR); red, Western Pacific Region (WPR).

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