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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 Subissi
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 7
Figure 7. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus sequence sampling density (sequences/1 million camels) by country and year described during global genomic surveillance, 2012–2025. A) Egypt; B) Ethiopia; C) Kenya; D) Nigeria; E) Oman; F) Qatar; G) Saudi Arabia; H) United Arab Emirates. The median sampling density per country is shown by the golden-brown bar to the right. y-axes differ among countries. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations statistics database does not distinguish dromedary from Bactrian camels; data are therefore presented as contextual indicators of camel-associated surveillance coverage and should not be interpreted as species-specific estimates of dromedary reservoir coverage.
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