Multihospital Outbreak of a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Deletion Variant Jordan: A Molecular Serologic and Epidemiologic Investigation

摘要

BackgroundAn outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Jordan in 2015 involved a variant virus that acquired distinctive deletions in the accessory open reading frames. We conducted a molecular and seroepidemiologic investigation to describe the deletion variant’s transmission patterns and epidemiology.