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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Research Letter

Phylogenetic Analysis of MERS-CoV in a Camel Abattoir, Saudi Arabia, 2016–2018

Maged Gomaa Hemida1, Daniel K.W. Chu1, Yen Y. Chor, Samuel M.S. Cheng, Leo L.M. Poon, Abdelmohsen Alnaeem, and Malik PeirisComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt (M. Hemida); King Faisal University, Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia (M. Hemida, A. Alnaeem); The University of Hong Kong (D.K.W. Chu, Y.Y. Chor, S.M.S. Cheng, L.L.M. Poon, M. Peiris)

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Phylogeny of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) sequenced from nasal and rectal samples collected from camels in an abattoir, Saudi Arabia. Phylogeny was constructed by using IQTREE (http://www.iqtree.org) with the automatic nucleotide transition model selection. Branch supports, shown at major nodes, were generated by ultrafast bootstrap approximation (Appendix). Genomes generated from this study are underlined; asterisks (*) indicate viruses from humans. Blue indicates viruses from camels from Saudi Arabia; red indicates viruses in camels imported from Sudan; green indicates viruses in camels imported from Somalia. The overall topology of the phylogeny of MERS-CoV also is available (Appendix Figure). Scale bar indicates 104 mutations per site.

Figure. Phylogeny of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) sequenced from nasal and rectal samples collected from camels in an abattoir, Saudi Arabia. Phylogeny was constructed by using IQTREE (http://www.iqtree.org) with the automatic nucleotide transition model selection. Branch supports, shown at major nodes, were generated by ultrafast bootstrap approximation (Appendix). Genomes generated from this study are underlined; asterisks (*) indicate viruses from humans. Blue indicates viruses from camels from Saudi Arabia; red indicates viruses in camels imported from Sudan; green indicates viruses in camels imported from Somalia. The overall topology of the phylogeny of MERS-CoV also is available (Appendix Figure). Scale bar indicates 104 mutations per site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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