SARS transmission pattern in Singapore reassessed by viral sequence variation analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 0162-0168

  Liu, Jianjun ^a   Lim, Siew Lan ^a   Ruan, Yijun ^a   Ling, Ai Ee ^b   Ng, Lisa F P ^a   Drosten, Christian ^c   Liu, Edison T ^a   Stanton, Lawrence W ^a   Hibberd, Martin L ^a  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RATE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 15744403699     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020043     Document Type: Article

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