TY - JOUR AU - Lamers, Mart AU - Raj, V. Stalin AU - Shafei, Mah’d AU - Ali, Sami Sheikh AU - Abdallh, Sultan AU - Gazo, Mahmoud AU - Nofal, Samer AU - Lu, Xiaoyan AU - Erdman, Dean AU - Koopmans, Marion AU - Abdallat, Mohammad AU - Haagmans, Bart AU - Haagmans, Bart T1 - Deletion Variants of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus from Humans, Jordan, 2015 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 716 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We characterized Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses from a hospital outbreak in Jordan in 2015. The viruses from Jordan were highly similar to isolates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, except for deletions in open reading frames 4a and 3. Transmissibility and pathogenicity of this strain remains to be determined. KW - open reading frame KW - ORF4a KW - ORF3 KW - deletion variant KW - Jordan KW - MERS-CoV KW - Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus KW - humans KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - coronaviruses DO - 10.3201/eid2204.152065 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/4/15-2065_article ER - End of Reference