New MERS-CoV genomes don't impact on existing PCR assays.

I've looked at my latest nucleotide sequence alignments that incorporate the new genomes.Of particular interest to public health laboratories worldwide is that the ORF1a,ORF1b and E gene real-time PCR assays described by Corman and crew (Sept 2012 and Dec 2012), still match their targets with 100% identity - no mismatches and thus no change in detection efficiency expected.There is a mismatch...

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