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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Community Case Clusters of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Hafr Al-Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Descriptive Genomic study</title><author><name sortKey="Memish, Ziad A" sort="Memish, Ziad A" uniqKey="Memish Z" first="Ziad A." last="Memish">Ziad A. Memish</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0010">College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Cotten, Matthew" sort="Cotten, Matthew" uniqKey="Cotten M" first="Matthew" last="Cotten">Matthew Cotten</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Watson, Simon J" sort="Watson, Simon J" uniqKey="Watson S" first="Simon J." last="Watson">Simon J. Watson</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kellam, Paul" sort="Kellam, Paul" uniqKey="Kellam P" first="Paul" last="Kellam">Paul Kellam</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0020">Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zumla, Alimuddin" sort="Zumla, Alimuddin" uniqKey="Zumla A" first="Alimuddin" last="Zumla">Alimuddin Zumla</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0020">Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Alhakeem, Rafat F" sort="Alhakeem, Rafat F" uniqKey="Alhakeem R" first="Rafat F." last="Alhakeem">Rafat F. Alhakeem</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Assiri, Abdullah" sort="Assiri, Abdullah" uniqKey="Assiri A" first="Abdullah" last="Assiri">Abdullah Assiri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rabeeah, Abdullah A Al" sort="Rabeeah, Abdullah A Al" uniqKey="Rabeeah A" first="Abdullah A. Al" last="Rabeeah">Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A" sort="Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A" uniqKey="Al Tawfiq J" first="Jaffar A." last="Al-Tawfiq">Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0025">Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (USA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">24699184</idno><idno type="pmc">4441753</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441753</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:4441753</idno><idno type="doi">10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1372</idno><date when="2014">2014</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">000D63</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">000D63</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Community Case Clusters of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Hafr Al-Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Descriptive Genomic study</title><author><name sortKey="Memish, Ziad A" sort="Memish, Ziad A" uniqKey="Memish Z" first="Ziad A." last="Memish">Ziad A. Memish</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0010">College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Cotten, Matthew" sort="Cotten, Matthew" uniqKey="Cotten M" first="Matthew" last="Cotten">Matthew Cotten</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Watson, Simon J" sort="Watson, Simon J" uniqKey="Watson S" first="Simon J." last="Watson">Simon J. Watson</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kellam, Paul" sort="Kellam, Paul" uniqKey="Kellam P" first="Paul" last="Kellam">Paul Kellam</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0020">Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zumla, Alimuddin" sort="Zumla, Alimuddin" uniqKey="Zumla A" first="Alimuddin" last="Zumla">Alimuddin Zumla</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0020">Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Alhakeem, Rafat F" sort="Alhakeem, Rafat F" uniqKey="Alhakeem R" first="Rafat F." last="Alhakeem">Rafat F. Alhakeem</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Assiri, Abdullah" sort="Assiri, Abdullah" uniqKey="Assiri A" first="Abdullah" last="Assiri">Abdullah Assiri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rabeeah, Abdullah A Al" sort="Rabeeah, Abdullah A Al" uniqKey="Rabeeah A" first="Abdullah A. Al" last="Rabeeah">Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A" sort="Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A" uniqKey="Al Tawfiq J" first="Jaffar A." last="Al-Tawfiq">Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0025">Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (USA)</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">International Journal of Infectious Diseases</title><idno type="ISSN">1201-9712</idno><idno type="eISSN">1878-3511</idno><imprint><date when="2014">2014</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><title>Summary</title><p>The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first described in September 2012 and to date 86 deaths from a total of 206 cases of MERS-CoV infection have been reported to the WHO. Camels have been implicated as the reservoir of MERS-CoV, but the exact source and mode of transmission for most patients remain unknown. During a 3 month period, June to August 2013, there were 12 positive MERS-CoV cases reported from the Hafr Al-Batin region district in the north east region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In addition to the different regional camel festivals in neighboring countries, Hafr Al-Batin has the biggest camel market in the entire Kingdom and hosts an annual camel festival. Thus, we conducted a detailed epidemiological, clinical and genomic study to ascertain common exposure and transmission patterns of all cases of MERS-CoV reported from Hafr Al-Batin. Analysis of previously reported genetic data indicated that at least two of the infected contacts could not have been directly infected from the index patient and alternate source should be considered. While camels appear as the likely source, other sources have not been ruled out. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Int J Infect Dis</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Int. J. Infect. Dis</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Infectious Diseases</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1201-9712</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1878-3511</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">24699184</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4441753</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">S1201-9712(14)01451-9</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.1372</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Community Case Clusters of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Hafr Al-Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Descriptive Genomic study</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0005"><name><surname>Memish</surname><given-names>Ziad A.</given-names></name><email>zmemish@yahoo.com</email><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref><xref rid="aff0010" ref-type="aff">b</xref><xref rid="cor0005" ref-type="corresp">⁎</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0010"><name><surname>Cotten</surname><given-names>Matthew</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0015"><name><surname>Watson</surname><given-names>Simon J.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0020"><name><surname>Kellam</surname><given-names>Paul</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref><xref rid="aff0020" ref-type="aff">d</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0025"><name><surname>Zumla</surname><given-names>Alimuddin</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0020" ref-type="aff">d</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0030"><name><surname>Alhakeem</surname><given-names>Rafat F.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0035"><name><surname>Assiri</surname><given-names>Abdullah</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0040"><name><surname>Rabeeah</surname><given-names>Abdullah A. Al</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0045"><name><surname>Al-Tawfiq</surname><given-names>Jaffar A.</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff0005"><label>a</label>Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine (GCMGM), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)</aff><aff id="aff0010"><label>b</label>College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</aff><aff id="aff0015"><label>c</label>Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom</aff><aff id="aff0020"><label>d</label>Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom</aff><aff id="aff0025"><label>e</label>Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (USA)</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor0005"><label>⁎</label>Corresponding author. Deputy Minister for Public Health, and Director WHO Collaborating Center for Mass Gathering Medicine Ministry of Health, and Professor, Al-Faisal University, Riyadh 11176, KSA. <email>zmemish@yahoo.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>31</day><month>3</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on .</pmc-comment>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>6</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>31</day><month>3</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><fpage>63</fpage><lpage>68</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014 The Authors</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="abs0005"><title>Summary</title><p>The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first described in September 2012 and to date 86 deaths from a total of 206 cases of MERS-CoV infection have been reported to the WHO. Camels have been implicated as the reservoir of MERS-CoV, but the exact source and mode of transmission for most patients remain unknown. During a 3 month period, June to August 2013, there were 12 positive MERS-CoV cases reported from the Hafr Al-Batin region district in the north east region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In addition to the different regional camel festivals in neighboring countries, Hafr Al-Batin has the biggest camel market in the entire Kingdom and hosts an annual camel festival. Thus, we conducted a detailed epidemiological, clinical and genomic study to ascertain common exposure and transmission patterns of all cases of MERS-CoV reported from Hafr Al-Batin. Analysis of previously reported genetic data indicated that at least two of the infected contacts could not have been directly infected from the index patient and alternate source should be considered. While camels appear as the likely source, other sources have not been ruled out. More detailed case control studies with detailed case histories, epidemiological information and genomic analysis are being conducted to delineate the missing pieces in the transmission dynamics of MERS-CoV outbreak.</p></abstract><kwd-group id="kwd0005"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Middle East</kwd><kwd>Community</kwd><kwd>Clusters</kwd><kwd>MERS-CoV</kwd><kwd>Genome</kwd><kwd>Phylogeny</kwd><kwd>Coronavirus</kwd><kwd>Virus transmission</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="sec0005"><label>1</label><title>Introduction</title><p id="par0005">Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first described in September 2012,<xref rid="bib0005" ref-type="bibr"><sup>1</sup></xref> there have been a total of 206 cases of MERS-CoV infection with 86 deaths (41.7% mortality rate) reported to the WHO.<xref rid="bib0010" ref-type="bibr"><sup>2</sup></xref> All cases have had links to the Middle East and the majority of cases (156 with 63 deaths (40% mortality) have been reported from KSA as of March 15, 2014. We previously reported family<xref rid="bib0015" ref-type="bibr"><sup>3</sup></xref> and healthcare associated<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> case clusters of MERS-CoV infections where human-to-human transmission occurred between index cases and their contacts. Whilst camels have been implicated as the reservoir of MERS-CoV,<xref rid="bib0025" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>, <xref rid="bib0030" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>, <xref rid="bib0035" ref-type="bibr">7</xref> the exact source(s) and mode of transmission for most patients remain unknown. Serology consistent with a common MERS-CoV like virus in camels has been demonstrated by several studies<xref rid="bib0025" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>, <xref rid="bib0030" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>, <xref rid="bib0035" ref-type="bibr">7</xref> and recently evidence has emerged of a MERS-CoV infection in a camel and in humans in contact with these camels.<xref rid="bib0040" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>, <xref rid="bib0150" ref-type="bibr">30</xref></p><p id="par0010">During a 3 month period, May 31, 2013 to August 31, 2013, there were 12 confirmed MERS-CoV cases reported from the Hafr Al-Batin district in the north east region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Hafr Al-Batin has the biggest camel market in the entire Kingdom with 500,000 camels being reared there. Hafr Al-Batin annually hosts drovers of more than 100 camel herds, comprising around 10,000 camels, from various regions of KSA, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This annual festival is known locally as “Mazayin al-Ibl, meaning “The Best of the Herds,” and attracts more than 160,000 people<xref rid="bib0045" ref-type="bibr"><sup>9</sup></xref> from November- December to March each year. This festival was the first to be established in the region and subsequently other camel festivals were started in neighboring countries: Qatar, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. Since evidence is accumulating that camels are a zoonotic reservoir for MERS-CoV, we conducted a detailed epidemiological, clinical and genomic study to ascertain common exposure and transmission patterns of all cases of MERS reported from Hafr Al-Batin and relate it to other available genomic sequences from KSA and globally.</p></sec><sec id="sec0010"><label>2</label><title>Methods</title><sec id="sec0015"><label>2.1</label><title>Selection of MERS-CoV cases</title><p id="par0015">MERS-CoV cases reported from the Hafr Al-Batin region were selected for study. Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory details were collected. Clinical information included demographic data, clinical symptoms and signs, co-morbidities, contact with animals and travel history</p></sec><sec id="sec0020"><label>2.2</label><title>MERS-CoV testing and genomic analyses</title><p id="par0020">All suspected cases meeting the basic MERS-CoV infection criteria were confirmed in Saudi Ministry of Health regional laboratories by reverse transcription, real-time-PCR as previously described.<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> MERS-CoV genomic sequences were available from a subset of the Hafr Al-Batin MERS cases.<xref rid="bib0050" ref-type="bibr"><sup>10</sup></xref> These viral sequences were used to test possible transmission routes for the virus and establish the plausibility of epidemiologically suspected virus transmissions using a previously described statistical test of transmission.<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> Briefly, the expected number of sequence changes between two sequences was calculated as the product of the time interval between sampling, the evolutionary rate of the virus, and the maximum length of sequence shared by the two virus genomes. If the number of differences between two sequences accumulating in a given time is assumed to follow a Poisson distribution, with λ equal to the expected number of mutations, the probability of finding this number of differences between the two sequences by chance can be calculated from the cumulative density function of the Poisson distribution. A transmission pair was rejected if the number of observed mutations exceeded the 95% upper cumulative probability value. To reduce the chance of type 1 statistical errors due to multiple testing, a Bonferroni correction was applied to the significance cutoff, resulting in an adjusted significance level of 3.85 × 10<sup>–3</sup>. The rate of evolution of MERS-CoV has been estimated at 1.12 × 10–3 substitutions per site per year (95% credible interval [95% CI], 8.76 × 10<sup>–4</sup>; 1.37 × 10<sup>–3</sup>).<xref rid="bib0050" ref-type="bibr"><sup>10</sup></xref> To account for uncertainty in the evolutionary rate of the virus, the transmission tests were repeated at the 95% upper and lower credible intervals and checked for consistency in the results.</p><p id="par0025">In addition, a plausibility test was added. A reproductive time for MERS-CoV has been estimated at 7-12 days,<xref rid="bib0055" ref-type="bibr"><sup>11</sup></xref> which represents the time from symptom onset in a primary case to symptom onset in a secondary case. This estimate is largely derived from hospital-based infections which may be dominated by patients with renal failure and other co-morbidities,<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib0060" ref-type="bibr">12</xref> as well as close contact with infected cases resulting in an underestimate of the generation time. For testing the global transmission of the virus, we included an asymptomatic period when a patient might still be infectious, estimating that a case remains infectious for 14 days, and assuming that identification would occur within 7 days of infection. Thus, any two cases might be plausibly directly linked if they meet the statistical sequence test and the two sample dates differ by 21 days or less. This calculation was used to assess the likelihood that virus transmission occurred directly between two test cases and was applied to all cases infected with the Hafr-Al-Batin_1 MERS-CoV variant.</p></sec><sec id="sec0025"><label>2.3</label><title>Statistical analysis</title><p id="par0030">A chi-squared test was used to assess the associations of comorbidities and clinical presentations, with <italic>p</italic> values <0.05 considered significant.</p></sec></sec><sec id="sec0030"><label>3</label><title>Results</title><sec id="sec0035"><label>3.1</label><title>MERS-CoV cases and clusters</title><p id="par0035">Between May 31, 2013 and August 31, 2013, there were 12 confirmed MERS-CoV cases in the Hafr Al-Batin area. Two index cases and two clusters were noted. In Cluster 1, the index case Patient 1 (as defined by first date of diagnosis) was a 21 year-old non-Saudi shepherd with onset of symptoms on May 31, 2013 and a secondary case, Patient 2, a healthcare worker contact had who had an asymptomatic infection (<xref rid="fig0005" ref-type="fig">Figure 1</xref>A). Cluster 2 involved a 38 year-old Saudi male, Patient 3, who owned and directly cared for camels, and had onset of symptoms on August 8, 2013. Patient 3 was closely associated with five additional MERS cases (Patients 4-8) and Patient 8, one of the secondary contacts of Patient 3, was associated with an additional four MERS cases (Patients 9-12, <xref rid="fig0005" ref-type="fig">Figure 1</xref>A).<fig id="fig0005"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>(A) The epidemiologically defined transmission pathway of the two MERS-CoV clusters. Markers for each MERS case were placed by sample date (x-axis) and colored dark grey for fatal outcome or green for non-fatal outcome. Patient numbers are indicated within each marker. The age and gender of each case are indicated, and epidemiologically-possible contacts of Patients 1, 3 and 8 are marked by arrows. (B) Determination of genetically plausible transmission for the Hafr Al-Batin Cluster 2. Time of sample collection is indicated on the x-axis. Colored markers indicate the MERS case with the following code. Blue: MERS-CoV sequence was available for that case, grey: no sequence was available, orange: no sequence was available but the ancestral reconstructed sequence for the clade was used. Green arrows indicate statistically plausible transmission between the pair (with no direction implied), red arrows indicate that transmission between the pair is not supported statistically. Statistical tests of transmission were performed as previously described.<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gr1_lrg"></graphic></fig></p></sec><sec id="sec0040"><label>3.2</label><title>Comorbidity and Clinical Presentations</title><p id="par0040">Of the 12 cases, five (41.7%) had contacts with camels. The first index (June 2013) case (Patient 1) was a shepherd. In the two clusters, five patients died including the 2 index cases and 3 of their close contacts (four out of the five mortalities had comorbidities). Of those with comorbidities, all had diabetes mellitus, three had hypertension, and one was also obese and was a smoker. Comorbidities were present in four (80%) of the five symptomatic cases and in one (14%) of the seven asymptomatic cases (<italic>p</italic> = 0.07) (<xref rid="tbl0005" ref-type="table">Table 1</xref>).<table-wrap position="float" id="tbl0005"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>shows symptomatic and asymptomatic cases and comorbid conditions.</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Cases</th><th align="left">Age</th><th align="left">Gender</th><th align="left">Comorbidity</th><th align="left">Outcome</th><th align="left">Animal Contact</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">Pt1<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">*</xref><break></break>Index case Cluster 1</td><td align="char">21</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">died</td><td align="left">yes</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt2</td><td align="char">56</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt3<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">*</xref><break></break>Index case Cluster 2</td><td align="char">38</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">DM</td><td align="left">died</td><td align="left">yes</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt4<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">*</xref></td><td align="char">79</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">DM, HTN</td><td align="left">died</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt5</td><td align="char">26</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">yes</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt6</td><td align="char">16</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">yes</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt7</td><td align="char">7</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt8<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">*</xref></td><td align="char">47</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">Obesity, DM, HTN, smoking, HD</td><td align="left">died</td><td align="left">yes</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt9</td><td align="char">46</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">DM, HTN</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt10</td><td align="char">3</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt11</td><td align="char">18</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">none</td><td align="left">alive</td><td align="left">no</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pt12<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">*</xref></td><td align="char">74</td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">DM, HTN</td><td align="left">died</td><td align="left">no</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn id="tblfn0005"><label>*</label><p id="npar0005">Symptomatic case; DM=Diabetes Mellitus,HTN= hypertension, HD= Hemodialysis; M = male; F= female.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p><p id="par0045">All symptomatic cases had fever, cough, shortness of breath and four (80%) complained of sore throat. Two (40%) had headache, one (20%) complained of hemoptysis and one (20%) had nausea (<xref rid="tbl0010" ref-type="table">Table 2</xref>).<table-wrap position="float" id="tbl0010"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Clinical Presentations among symptomatic cases.</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Symptom</th><th align="left">No. of cases</th><th align="left">%</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">fever</td><td align="char">5</td><td align="char">100</td></tr><tr><td align="left">sore throat</td><td align="char">4</td><td align="char">80</td></tr><tr><td align="left">cough</td><td align="char">5</td><td align="char">100</td></tr><tr><td align="left">shortness of breath</td><td align="char">5</td><td align="char">100</td></tr><tr><td align="left">hemoptysis</td><td align="char">1</td><td align="char">20</td></tr><tr><td align="left">nausea</td><td align="char">1</td><td align="char">20</td></tr><tr><td align="left">headache</td><td align="char">2</td><td align="char">40</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="sec0045"><label>3.3</label><title>Contact Investigation</title><p id="par0050">The contact investigation was carried out for both family contacts and healthcare worker contacts. Among the family contacts, 7 out of 36 (19.4%) tested positive and 1 of 51 (2%) healthcare worker contacts tested positive for MERS-CoV (<italic>p</italic> = 0.0078).</p></sec><sec id="sec0050"><label>3.4</label><title>Genetic tracing of MERS-CoV transmission and possible linkages</title><p id="par0055">For the Hafr Al-Batin Cluster 1 we obtained a full MERS-CoV genome from the index Patient 1 (Hafr-Al-Batin_1_2013), however no useful sequence could be obtained from the only positive contact in that cluster (Patient 2, a health care worker). For Cluster 2, MERS-CoV genomic sequences were obtained from Patient 4 (Hafr-Al-Batin_5_2013), Patient 5, (Hafr-Al-Batin_4_2013), Patient 8 (Hafr-Al-Batin_6_2013) and Patient 12 (Hafr-Al-Batin_2_2013). We were unable to obtain sequence from Patient 3, however an ancestral sequence for the entire family clade was reconstructed and used as a surrogate for the Patient 3 sequence. Possible transmission routes are indicated in <xref rid="fig0005" ref-type="fig">Figure 1</xref>B. Each patient is indicated by a filled circle placed by sample date, blue-filled circles indicate patients with sequence, grey-filled circles indicate cases with no available sequence and the orange-filled circle represents the reconstructed ancestral sequence.</p><p id="par0060">Individual cases in the second Hafr Al-Batin transmission cluster were plotted by date of the sequenced sample (<xref rid="fig0015" ref-type="fig">Figure 2</xref>). Blue-filled circles indicate cases with sequence data, the orange-filled circle for Patient 3 indicates that an ancestor sequence for the clade was reconstructed and used as a surrogate, grey-filled circles indicate cases with no available sequence. Some transmissions are statistically allowed including Patient 3 to Patient 8 and Patient 4, 5 or 8 to patient 12 (green arrows). However, transmission from Patient 3 to Patient 4 or Patient 5 is not likely to have occurred (dashed red arrows); other sources of the infection should therefore be considered for Patient 4 and Patient 5.<fig id="fig0015"><label>Figure 2</label><caption><p>Statistically possible transmission pairs between MERS cases infected with the Hafr-Al-Batin_1 clade of MERS-CoV. All MERS cases known to be infected with the Hafr-Al-Batin_1 clade of MERS-CoV were plotted by sample date (x-axis) and color-coded by Hafr-Al-Batin_1 subclade as previously described <xref rid="bib0050" ref-type="bibr"><sup>10</sup></xref>. Upper panel: All statistically supported transmission pairs are marked by arcs. Lower panel: Only potential transmission pairs whose collection dates differ by 21 days or less are marked by arcs. See Methods section for additional details.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gr2_lrg"></graphic></fig></p><p id="par0065">To examine MERS-CoV sources on a broader scale, the possible transmissions amongst all patients known to have been infected with the Haf Al-Batin variant were tested (<xref rid="fig0015" ref-type="fig">Figure 2</xref>). The Hafr-Al-Batin_1 clade was first observed in Patient 1 (Hafr-Al-Batin_1) in May 2013<xref rid="bib0065" ref-type="bibr"><sup>13</sup></xref> and since then has been identified in 19 MERS patients<xref rid="bib0050" ref-type="bibr"><sup>10</sup></xref> and 1 camel<xref rid="bib0040" ref-type="bibr"><sup>8</sup></xref> in Riyadh, Hafr Al-Batin, Madinah, and Qatar.</p><p id="par0070">All MERS cases were depicted by sample date and color-coded by virus clade as previously described <sup>10</sup> (<xref rid="fig0015" ref-type="fig">Figure 2</xref>, upper panel). All statistically supported transmissions are marked by arcs connecting the relevant patients. Several important patterns appear. The viruses Hafr-Al-Batin_1, Riyadh_8, Riyadh_12 are linked to a large number of possible pairs. Hafr-Al-Batin_1_2013 is an early virus in this clade and may be representative of the camel to human zoonosis that gave rise to this clade, showing linkage to 10 of the 19 cases infected with the Hafr-Al-Batin_1 clade virus. The 4 linkages from Riyadh_8, 3 linkages from Riyadh_11 and 4 linkages from Riyadh_12 viruses may provide important clues. These are viruses from patients in Riyadh with no direct links to the Hafr Al-Batin region and no contact with animals, including camels. Within a period of one month, closely-related viruses were observed in Riyadh, in the Hafr Al-Batin region as well as in Madinah, with statistical support for direct transmission events. Any MERS-CoV transmission model must account for this rapid virus movement and MERS-CoV infection with no apparent live animal contact. Furthermore, sequences from three viruses in the recently described camel/human transmission cluster in Qatar also fall within the Hafr Al-Batin cluster.<xref rid="bib0040" ref-type="bibr"><sup>8</sup></xref> The transmission testing supports the conclusion that the Qatar human and camel viruses are directly related to the Saudi Hafr Al-Batin cluster.</p><p id="par0075">Adding the 21-day plausibility filter, (see Methods) the pattern is reduced in complexity; however important features remain (<xref rid="fig0015" ref-type="fig">Figure 2</xref>, lower panel). The linkages between the Riyadh_12 patient and the patients in the Hafr Al-Batin family cluster (Hafr-Al-Batin_4, 5 and 6) remain. In searching for alternative sources of the infection of Patient 4 and 5, Riyadh_12 or the source of the infection of Riyadh_12 should be considered, including exposure to health care facilities, or health care workers, consumption or exposure to uncooked animal products, exposure to camels or other animals directly. A second network of transmissions passes the plausibility test with transmissions between the Riyadh_8, Riyadh_11 and Riyadh 17 cases and beyond to Madinah_1 and Madinah_3.</p></sec></sec><sec id="sec0055"><label>4</label><title>Discussion</title><p id="par0080">In this report we describe the possible transmission dynamics of MERS-CoV in community case clusters from the Hafr Al-Batin region. A cluster was defined by WHO as the occurrence of <underline>></underline> 2 patients with onset of symptoms within an incubation period of 14 days. The transmission occurs in the same setting such as a classroom, workplace, household, extended family, or hospital.<xref rid="bib0070" ref-type="bibr"><sup>14</sup></xref> Since the emergence of MERS-CoV, a number of clusters involving more than two people<xref rid="bib0070" ref-type="bibr"><sup>14</sup></xref> have been reported from France,<xref rid="bib0075" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>, <xref rid="bib0080" ref-type="bibr">16</xref> Italy, Jordan,<xref rid="bib0085" ref-type="bibr"><sup>17</sup></xref> KSA,<xref rid="bib0015" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib0090" ref-type="bibr">18</xref> Tunisia,<xref rid="bib0095" ref-type="bibr"><sup>19</sup></xref> UAE, UK<xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr"><sup>20</sup></xref> and Qatar. The known 14 primary cases in these clusters were adult men.<xref rid="bib0105" ref-type="bibr"><sup>21</sup></xref> Of the involved individuals, 26% occurred in healthcare setting.<xref rid="bib0105" ref-type="bibr"><sup>21</sup></xref> The largest healthcare associated MERS-CoV cluster was reported from Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia.<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> In an earlier family cluster from Saudi Arabia, an adult male index case resided in an extended household of 10 other adults and 18 children<sub>.</sub> Secondary cases were identified in two sons, and a grandson.<xref rid="bib0015" ref-type="bibr"><sup>3</sup></xref> The findings from previous clusters showed that immunocompetent contacts exhibit mild symptoms.<xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr">20</xref>, <xref rid="bib0110" ref-type="bibr">22</xref> In the UK cluster of MERS-CoV, two cases of MERS-CoV infection were confirmed and one of the two cases had severe illness. None of the 59 healthcare workers contacts had infection.<xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr"><sup>20</sup></xref> In the Hafr Al-Batin cases reported here, 19.4% among the family contacts tested positive and 2% of the healthcare worker contacts were positive for MERS-CoV (<italic>p</italic> = 0.0078).</p><p id="par0085">One of the differences between primary cases and secondary cases in MERS-CoV clusters is that primary cases frequently have no contact with a known MERS cases and are therefore thought to acquire infection through contact with non-human sources of the virus.<xref rid="bib0115" ref-type="bibr"><sup>23</sup></xref> The Hafr Al-Batin MERS Cluster 2 showed the spectrum of illness of MERS-CoV from asymptomatic to a fulminant disease as observed previously.<xref rid="bib0015" ref-type="bibr"><sup>3</sup></xref> In the current study, animal contact was reported in 41.7% of all cases. The presence of animal contact among asymptomatic family contacts further complicate the issue of having secondary cases as a result of direct contact or the result of exposure to the same source or host of MERS-CoV that lead to the index infection. In fact, for family cluster 2, our genetic data indicate that while Patient 8 is likely to have acquired the infection from the index Patient 3, at least two of the infected contacts (Patients 4 and 5) could not have been directly infected from Patient 3 and alternate source should be considered.</p><p id="par0090">Although, there have been a number of transmissions observed within healthcare setting and interfamilial, the number of secondary transmissions seem be limited and is consistent with the R<sup>0</sup> estimates for MERS being less than 1.<xref rid="bib0055" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>, <xref rid="bib0160" ref-type="bibr">32</xref> This finding is similar to previous observations from known clusters<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib0120" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>, <xref rid="bib0125" ref-type="bibr">25</xref> and that secondary attack rates among family members of patients in other clusters appear to be low.<xref rid="bib0015" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib0085" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>, <xref rid="bib0125" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>, <xref rid="bib0130" ref-type="bibr">26</xref> In a recent large screening study, family contacts had a higher positivity rate (3.6%) than HCW contacts (1.12%).<xref rid="bib0135" ref-type="bibr"><sup>27</sup></xref> Systematic implementation of infection prevention and control measures in reported clusters involving healthcare settinghas appeared to limit onward transmission to HCW and hospitalized patients.<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib0075" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>, <xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr">20</xref>, <xref rid="bib0125" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>, <xref rid="bib0140" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>, <xref rid="bib0145" ref-type="bibr">29</xref></p><p id="par0095">A large annual camel fair takes place in Hafr Al-Batin each November-December to March with movement of a large number of camels both to and from Hafr Al-Batin.<xref rid="bib0045" ref-type="bibr"><sup>9</sup></xref> It seems that the timing of the Hafr Al-Batin sequence divergence is consistent with the annual fair and animal movement. It remains unclear if primary cases had acquired MERS-CoV from direct animal contact or as a result of contact or consumption of animal products, unpasteurized camel milk and products (ice cream). Evidence that camels are a source of human MERS-CoV infections is accumulating. Two sets of patients with camel contacts have now been analyzed and the sequence data support direct transmission between camel and human, although the sequences do not allow direction of transmission.<xref rid="bib0040" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>, <xref rid="bib0150" ref-type="bibr">30</xref> Serological evidence that the camel infections predate the human infection has been provided.<xref rid="bib0150" ref-type="bibr"><sup>30</sup></xref> Furthermore, a full MERS-CoV genome has been obtained from a camel in Egypt;<xref rid="bib0155" ref-type="bibr"><sup>31</sup></xref> this combined with the high prevalence of MERS-CoV seropositivity indicates that camels may be frequently infected with the virus. 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