Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003
Dispatch
Microbiologic Characteristics, Serologic Responses, and Clinical Manifestations in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Taiwan1
Po-Ren Hsueh*, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao*, Shiou-Hwei Yeh†, Wei-Kung Wang*, Pei-Jer Chen*, Jin-Town Wang*, Shan-Chwen Chang*, Chuan-Liang Kao*
, Pan-Chyr Yang* , and The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital2
, Pan-Chyr Yang* , and The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital2Table
. Nucleotide base differences among the TW-1, TOR-2, HKU-39849, CUHK-W1, and the Urbani sequences of SARS-CoVa
| SARS-associated coronavirus sequence | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | TW-1 | TOR-2 | HKU-39849 | CUHK-W1 | Urbani | A. a. changeb | |
| TW1/Urbani | |||||||
| 2,601 | T | T | C | T | T | Val/Val | |
| 3,165 | G | A | A | A | A | Ser/Ser | |
| 7,746 | G | G | T | T | G | Pro/Pro | |
| 7,919 | C | C | C | C | T | Ala/Val | |
| 9,404 | T | T | C | C | T | Val/Ala | |
| 9,479 | T | T | C | C | T | Val/Ala | |
| 16,622 | C | C | C | C | T | Ala/Ala | |
| 17,564 | T | T | G | G | T | Asp/Glu | |
| 17,846 | C | C | T | T | C | Arg/Arg | |
| 19,064 | A | A | G | G | G | Glu/Glu | |
| 21,721 | G | G | A | A | G | Gly/Asp | |
| 22,222 | T | T | C | C | T | Ile/Thr | |
| 23,220 | T | G | T | T | T | Ser/Ala | |
| 24,872 | T | T | T | T | C | Leu/Leu | |
| 25,298 | G | A | G | G | G | Gly/Arg | |
| 26867 | T | T | T | T | C | Ser/Pro | |
| 27,827 | T | T | C | C | T | Cys/Arg | |
aSARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
bIndicates a base difference resulting in an amino acid change.
1The first and the second author contributed equally to this paper.
2The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital includes the following: Ding-Shinn Chen, Yuan-Teh Lee, Che-Ming Teng, Pan-Chyr Yang, Hong-Nerng Ho, Pei-Jer Chen, Ming-Fu Chang, Jin-Town Wang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Wei-Kung Wang, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, and Po-Ren Hsueh.
