Detection of SARS Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome by Conventional and Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-72

  Poon, Leo L M ^a   Chan, Kwok Hung ^b   Wong, O Kei ^a   Cheung, Timothy K W ^a   Ng, Iris ^a   Zheng, Bojian ^a   Seto, Wing Hong ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a   Guan, Y ^a   Peiris, Joseph S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPEN READING FRAME; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

FECES; HUMANS; NASAL CAVITY; PHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SARS COV;

EID: 9144230030     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2003.023663     Document Type: Article

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