Table 1.

Clinical and epidemiological profile of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases.

Patient No.	Sample No.	Gender	Age	Specimen Type *	Onset Date	Date of Sample Collection	E-Gene Ct	Orf1a Ct	Health-Care Worker	Outcome
1	1	Female	57	NPA	20-Sep-15	23-Sep-15	37	35	NO	Recovered
	2	Female	57	NPA	20-Sep-15	24-Sep-15	34	35
	3 **	Female	57	NPA	20-Sep-15	28-Sep-15	30	30
	4	Female	57	NPA	20-Sep-15	29-Sep-15	35	36
2	1	Female	59	NPA	30-Aug-15	23-Sep-15	35	36	NO	Died
	2 **	Female	59	NPA	30-Aug-15	28-Sep-15	32	32
	3	Female	59	NPA	30-Aug-15	29-Sep-15	34	33
	4	Female	59	NPA	30-Aug-15	01-Oct-15	35	36
3	1 **	Male	57	NPA	10-Sep-15	29-Sep-15	33	33	NO	Died
	2	Male	57	NPA	10-Sep-15	01-Oct-15	37	37
4	1	Female	75	NPA	12-Sep-15	30-Sep-15	30	30	NO	Died
	2 **	Female	75	NPA	12-Sep-15	02-Oct-15	28	29
5	1	Male	26	NPA	30-Jun-16	02-Jul-16	25	26	NO	Died
	2 **	Male	26	NPA	30-Jun-16	04-Jul-16	22	22
6	1 **	Male	26	NPA	04-Jun-17	07-Jun-17	26	26	YES	Recovered
	2	Male	26	NPA	04-Jun-17	16-Jun-17	34	36
	3	Male	26	NPA	04-Jun-17	19-Jun-17	30	30
	4	Male	26	NPA	04-Jun-17	23-Jun-17	27	27
	5	Male	26	NPA	04-Jun-17	25-Jun-17	26	27
7	1 **	Female	27	NPA	08-Jun-17	08-Jun-17	27	27	YES	Recovered
	2	Female	27	NPA	08-Jun-17	13-Jun-17	30	30
	3	Female	27	NPA	08-Jun-17	16-Jun-17	31	31
8	1	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	11-Jun-17	30	31	YES	Recovered
	2	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	16-Jun-17	34	34
	3 **	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	19-Jun-17	27	27
	4	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	25-Jun-17	30	32
	5	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	29-Jun-17	32	32
	6	Male	39	NPA	11-Jun-17	03-Jul-17	34	35
9	1 **	Female	35	NPA	31-May-17	13-Jun-17	26	26	YES	Recovered
	2	Female	35	NPA	31-May-17	16-Jun-17	32	32
	3	Female	35	NPA	31-May-17	19-Jun-17	29	30
	4	Female	35	NPA	31-May-17	23-Jun-17	33	33
10	1 **	Male	39	NPA	16-Jun-17	19-Jun-17	25	25	NO	Recovered
	2	Male	39	NPA	16-Jun-17	27-Jun-17	33	34
11	1 **	Male	75	TA	22-Jun-17	23-Jun-17	15	15	NO	Died
	2	Male	75	TA	22-Jun-17	24-Jun-17	15	15
12	1	Male	77	NPA	05-Oct-17	08-Oct-17	34	35	NO	Recovered
	2 **	Male	77	NPA	05-Oct-17	11-Oct-17	26	26
13	1 **	Female	75	NPA	07-Nov-17	12-Nov-17	25	25	NO	Died
	2	Female	75	NPA	07-Nov-17	16-Nov-17	34	35

* Nasopharyngeal Aspirate (NPA) and/or Tracheal Aspirate (TA); ** Samples with lowest Ct-value or highest RNA copy number were used for sequencing.