SARS-related Virus Predating SARS Outbreak, Hong Kong
subject: SARS, SARS-related virus, previous exposure, serologic study, dispatch, Hong Kong
description: Using immunofluorescence and neutralization assays, we detected antibodies to human severe acute respiratory syndrome–associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and/or animal SARS-CoV–like virus in 17 (1.8%) of 938 adults recruited in 2001. This finding suggests that a small proportion of healthy persons in Hong Kong had been exposed to SARS-related viruses at least 2 years before the recent SARS outbreak.
creator: Bo-Jian Zheng, Yi Guan, Ka Hing Wong, Jie Zhou, Kin Ling Wong, Betty Wan Y. Young, Liwei Lu, Shui Shan Lee
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2004
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030533
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine