Determining SARS sub-clinical infection: A longitudinal seroepidemiological study in recovered SARS patients and controls after an outbreak in a general hospital

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 507-510

  Yang, Zhen ^a   Wang, Shixin ^b   Li, Qian ^a   Li, Yuming ^a   Wei, Maoti ^a   Gao, Hongsheng ^a   Donovan, Catherine ^c   Wang, Peizhong Peter ^c,d  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CHINESE PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE FORCES   (China)

^b Dong Li Hospital   (China)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 72149119983     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902919384     Document Type: Article

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