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cord-339146-ifdgl2bj	Lu, Xiaoyan	Spike gene deletion quasispecies in serum of patient with acute MERS‐CoV infection	2016-08-22		.txt	text/plain	2201	107	49	During investigation of a multi‐facility outbreak of MERS‐CoV in Taif, Saudi Arabia, we identified a mixed population of wild‐type and variant sequences with a large 530 nucleotide deletion in the spike gene from the serum of one patient. Serum specimens from Taif patients were screened for MERS-CoV by real-time RT-PCR and positive samples were further subjected to RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing of the spike gene as previously reported [Assiri et al., 2016a] . As previously reported [Assiri et al., 2016a] , realtime RT-PCR testing of serum specimens from a MERS-CoV outbreak in Taif identified two epidemiologically linked case-patients (#27 and #30) with identical spike gene sequences. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus quasispecies that include homologues of human isolates revealed through whole-genome analysis and virus cultured from dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia	./cache/cord-339146-ifdgl2bj.txt	./txt/cord-339146-ifdgl2bj.txt