Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detecting SARS Coronavirus, Beijing, 2003
Open Access
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (2) , 311-316
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1002.030799
Abstract
During the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, which targets the nucleocapsid gene at the 3′-end of the viral genome, was established to detect and identify the SARS-associated coronavirus. We describe the use of this assay to screen >700 clinical samples.Keywords
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