Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

SARS-related Virus Predating SARS Outbreak, Hong Kong

Bo Jian Zheng,* Yi Guan,* Ka Hing Wong,† Jie Zhou,* Kin Ling Wong,* Betty Wan Y. Young,‡ Li Wei Lu,* and Shui Shan Lee*
*University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administration Region, People’s Republic of China; †Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China; and ‡Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Figure. Correlation between antibodies against human severe acute respiratory syndrome cornonavirus (SARS-CoV) (anti-Hu SARS-CoV) and animal (anti-An) SARS-CoV–like virus in seropositive healthy adults recruited in 2001 (dotted line) and in patients with SARS in 2003 (thick line) by an immunofluorescence (A) and a neutralization (B) assay; and between neutralizing (NT) and immunofluorescence (IF) antibodies against Hu SARS-CoV (C) and a SARS-CoV–like virus (D).

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