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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
Laboratory Study

Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detecting SARS Coronavirus, Beijing, 2003

Junhui Zhai*1, Thomas Briese†1, Erhei Dai*, Xiaoyi Wang*, Xin Pang*, Zongmin Du*, Haihong Liu*, Jin Wang*, Hongxia Wang*, Zhaobiao Guo*, Zeliang Chen*, Lingxiao Jiang*, Dongsheng Zhou*, Yanping Han*, Omar Jabado†, Gustavo Palacios†, W. Ian Lipkin†Comments to Author , and Ruifu Yang*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China; †Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 1Junhui Zhai and Thomas Briese contributed equally to the manuscript.

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Table

Summary of clinical samplesa

Specimens Total patients 1–10 d
 11–20 d
 21–30 d
 31–40 d
 >40 d
pos neg pos neg pos neg pos neg pos neg
Feces PCR
 326
 10
 27
 19
 52
 12
 65
 12
 55
 7
 67
Blood PCR
 426
 28
 34
 20
 21
 22
 143
 26
 132
 NA
 NA
Blood IgG
 426
 6
 56
 10
 31
 82
 83
 138
 20
 NA
 NA
Blood IgM 426 8 54 6 35 63 102 82 76 NA NA

apos, positive;eg, negative; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; Ig, immunoglobulin; NA, not available.

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