SARS-CoV Infection in a Restaurant from Palm Civet

Wang, Ming; Yan, Meiying; Xu, Huifang; Liang, Weili; Kan, Biao; Zheng, Bojian; Chen, Honglin; Zheng, Han; Xu, Yanmei; Zhang, Enmin; Wang, Hongxia; Ye, Jingrong; Li, Guichang; Li, Machao; Cui, Zhigang; Liu, Yu-Fei; Guo, Rong-Tong; Liu, Xiao-Ning; Zhan, Liu-Hua; Zhou, Duan-Hua; Zhao, Ailan; Hai, Rong; Yu, Dongzhen; Guan, Yi; Xu, Jianguo

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SARS-CoV Infection in a Restaurant from Palm Civet

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Dec 2005
By Wang, Ming ; Yan, Meiying ; Xu, Huifang ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Wang, Ming ; Yan, Meiying ; Xu, Huifang ; Liang, Weili ; Kan, Biao ; Zheng, Bojian ; Chen, Honglin ; Zheng, Han ; Xu, Yanmei ; Zhang, Enmin ; Wang, Hongxia ; Ye, Jingrong ; Li, Guichang ; Li, Machao ; Cui, Zhigang ; Liu, Yu-Fei ; Guo, Rong-Tong ; Liu, Xiao-Ning ; Zhan, Liu-Hua ; Zhou, Duan-Hua ; Zhao, Ailan ; Hai, Rong ; Yu, Dongzhen ; Guan, Yi ; Xu, Jianguo
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Epidemiologic investigations showed that 2 of 4 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) identified in the winter of 2003-2004 were a waitresss at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, that served palm civets as food and a customer who ate in the restaurant ashort distance from animal cages. All 6 palm civets at the restaurant were positive for SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Partial spike (S) gene sequences of SARS-CoV from the 2 patients were identical to 4 of 5 Sgene viral sequences from palm civets. Phylogenetic analysis showed that SARS-CoV from palm civets in the restaurant was most closely related to animal isolates. SARS cases at the restaurant were the result of recent interspecies transfer from the putative palm civet reservoir, and not the result of continued circulation of SARS-CoV in the human population.
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Adult Animals Antibodies, Viral Female Food Microbiology Humans Immunoglobulin G Immunoglobulin M Male Membrane Glycoproteins Phylogeny Research Restaurants SARS Virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus Viral Envelope Proteins Viverridae
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Emerg Infect Dis. 11(12):1860-1865.
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Journal Article
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China
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Asia
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11
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12
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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