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Volume 10, Number 1—January 2004
Research

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–associated Coronavirus in Lung Tissue

Tony Mazzulli*†‡, Gabriella A. Farcas‡§, Susan M. Poutanen*†‡, Barbara M. Willey*†, Donald E. Low*†‡, Jagdish Butany†‡¶, Sylvia L. Asa†‡¶, and Kevin C. Kain‡§1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †Toronto Medical Laboratories, Toronto Ontario, Canada; ‡University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; §Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ¶University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Table 2

Univariate analysis of predictors of high viral loads in postmortem lung tissue

Predictor Viral load >106 copies/g lung tissue Viral load <106 copies/g lung tissue Fisher exact test
Short duration of illness (<21 d) 5/5 0/6 p=0.002
Use of ribavirin 4/5 6/6 p=0.45
Use of steroids 1/5 5/6 p=0.08

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1Drs. Mazzulli and Farcas contributed equally to the manuscript. All authors jointly conceived and designed the study and wrote the report. Gabriella A. Farcas performed the majority of the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays.

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