Real-time tracking of prevalence of MERS-CoV from 2012-2019
Sequence analysis reveals 2 conserved pyrimidine nucleotides in the loop
of stem loop 2 of MERS-CoV 5ā-UTR. According to this newly identified
genetic signature, MERS-CoV can be re-genotyped into 3 types,
Uā-U, Cā-U, and Cā-C types. The prevalence of
each virus type during 2012 to 2019 was determined by plotting the
numbers of case reported in NCBI GenBank. The genetic drift between
human and camel viruses was compared.