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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research

Sequential Emergence and Wide Spread of Neutralization Escape Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Mutants, South Korea, 2015

Yeon-Sook Kim1, Abdimadiyeva Aigerim1, Uni Park1, Yuri Kim, Ji-Young Rhee, Jae-Phil Choi, Wan Beom Park, Sang Won Park, Yeonjae Kim, Dong-Gyun Lim, Kyung-Soo Inn, Eung-Soo Hwang, Myung-Sik Choi, and Nam-Hyuk Cho2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea (Y.-S. Kim); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (A. Aigerim, U. Park, Y. Kim, W.B. Park, S.W. Park, E.-S. Hwang, M.-S. Choi, N.-H. Cho); Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, South Korea (J.-Y. Rhee); Seoul Medical Center, Seoul (J.-P. Choi); National Medical Center, Seoul (Y. Kim, D.-G. Lim, H.S. Shin); Kyung Hee University, Seoul (K.-S. Inn); Seoul National University Medical Research Center and Bundang Hospital, Seoul (N.H. Cho)

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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
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.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors were co-principal investigators.

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