id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-014546-arw4saeh Janies, Daniel A. Spread of Middle East Respiratory Coronavirus: Genetic versus Epidemiological Data 2017-05-01 .txt text/plain 851 60 61 MERS-CoV was discovered in 2012 in the Middle East and human cases around the world have been carefully reported by the WHO. In 2015, MERS-CoV spread from the Middle East to South Korea which sustained an outbreak. In order to evaluate the relative order and significance of geographic places in spread of the virus, we generated a transmission graph (Figure 1) based on methods described in 1. Places with high betweenness represent key hubs for the spread of the disease. Most important among the places in the MERS-CoV epidemic is Saudi Arabia as measured by the betweenness metric applied to a changes in place mapped to a phylogenetic tree. Saudi Arabia is the source of virus for Jordan, England, Qatar, South Korea, UAE, Indiana, and Egypt. The United Arab Emirates has a bidirectional connection with Saudi Arabia indicating the virus has spread between the two countries. Phylogenetics; Transmission Graph; MERS-CoV; Syndromic; Genetic ./cache/cord-014546-arw4saeh.txt ./txt/cord-014546-arw4saeh.txt