TY - JOUR AU - Leung, Gabriel M. AU - Chung, Pui-Hong AU - Tsang, Thomas AU - Lim, Wilina AU - Chan, Steve K.K. AU - Chau, Patsy AU - Donnelly, Christl A. AU - Ghani, Azra C. AU - Fraser, Christophe AU - Riley, Steven AU - Ferguson, Neil M. AU - Anderson, Roy M. AU - Law, Yuk-lung AU - Mok, Tina AU - Ng, Tonny AU - Fu, Alex AU - Leung, Pak-Yin AU - Peiris, J.S. Malik AU - Lam, Tai-Hing AU - Hedley, Anthony J. T1 - SARS-CoV Antibody Prevalence in All Hong Kong Patient Contacts T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 9 SP - 1653 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A total of 1,068 asymptomatic close contacts of patients with severe acute respiratory (SARS) from the 2003 epidemic in Hong Kong were serologically tested, and 2 (0.19%) were positive for SARS coronavirus immunoglobulin G antibody. SARS rarely manifests as a subclinical infection, and at present, wild animal species are the only important natural reservoirs of the virus. KW - Seroprevalence KW - SARS KW - Hong Kong KW - SARS-CoV KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1009.040155 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/9/04-0155_article ER - End of Reference