Is the SARS virus mutating?

Viruses such as HIV and those that cause influenza have often been described as 'wily' because they mutate rapidly, a trait that helps them to evade drugs or the human immune system. But so far, the SARS virus seems remarkably invariant: the genome sequences of 14 isolates from patients in...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095144/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.3
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description Viruses such as HIV and those that cause influenza have often been described as 'wily' because they mutate rapidly, a trait that helps them to evade drugs or the human immune system. But so far, the SARS virus seems remarkably invariant: the genome sequences of 14 isolates from patients in Singapore, Toronto, China and Hong Kong have not revealed any changes of real consequence(17).
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spelling pubmed-70951442020-03-26 Is the SARS virus mutating? Nature Q&A Viruses such as HIV and those that cause influenza have often been described as 'wily' because they mutate rapidly, a trait that helps them to evade drugs or the human immune system. But so far, the SARS virus seems remarkably invariant: the genome sequences of 14 isolates from patients in Singapore, Toronto, China and Hong Kong have not revealed any changes of real consequence(17). Nature Publishing Group UK 2003-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7095144/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.3 Text en © Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095144/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.3

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