SARS-CoV antibody prevalence in all Hong Kong patient contacts

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1653-1656

  Leung, Gabriel M ^a   Chung, Pui Hong ^b   Tsang, Thomas ^b   Lim, Wilina ^b   Chan, Steve K K ^a   Chau, Patsy ^a   Donnelly, Christl A ^c   Ghani, Azra C ^c   Fraser, Christophe ^c   Riley, Steven ^c   Ferguson, Neil M ^c   Anderson, Roy M ^c   Law, Yuk Lung ^b   Mok, Tina ^b   Ng, Tonny ^b   Fu, Alex ^b   Leung, Pak Yin ^b   Peiris, J S Malik ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Hedley, Anthony J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Department of Health ^*  (Hong Kong)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SARS CORONAVIRUS ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RESERVOIR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4444307621     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.040155     Document Type: Article

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