Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed h...

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Autores principales: Chow, Pierce K. H., Ooi, Eng-Eong, Tan, Hiang-Khoon, Ong, Kong-Wee, Sil, Bijon Kumar, Teo, Melissa, Ng, Timothy, Soo, Khee-Chee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15030691
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1002.030397
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Sumario:Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed had specific antibodies and suggests that subclinical SARS is not an important feature of the disease.

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