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Kim et al. Generation and Characterization of DNA Vaccines Targeting
the Nucleocapsid Protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
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Zhang & Yap. Exploring the Binding Mechanism of the Main Proteinase
in SARS-associated Coronavirus and Its Implication to Anti-SARS Drug Design.
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Chen et al. Antibody Response and Viraemia During the Course of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-associated Coronavirus Infection.
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Rainer. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Clinical Features,
Diagnosis, and Management.
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Yu et al. Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Virus.
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Rainer et al. The Spectrum of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome-associated Coronavirus Infection.
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Bisht et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike
Protein Expressed by Attenuated Vaccinia Virus Protectively Immunizes Mice.
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Zhu et al. Induction of SARS-nucleoprotein-specific Immune Response
by Use of DNA Vaccine.
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Chan et al. Serum LD1 Isoenzyme and Blood Lymphocyte Subsets as
Prognostic Indicators for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Cheng et al. Psychiatric Complications in Patients with Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) During the Acute Treatment Phase: A Series of 10 Cases.
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Mahony et al. Performance and Cost Evaluation of One Commercial and
Six In-house Conventional and Real-time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays for Detection of Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
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Schmidt et al. NAT Screening of Blood Donors for Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus can potentially prevent Transfusion Associated Transmissions.
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Wong et al. Plasma Inflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines in Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Yuen et al. Ocular Screening in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Liu et al. Interaction Between Heptad Repeat 1 and 2 Regions in Spike
Protein of SARS-associated Coronavirus: Implications for Virus Fusogenic Mechanism and Identification of
Fusion Inhibitors.
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Woo et al. Relative Rates of Non-pneumonic SARS Coronavirus Infection
and SARS Coronavirus Pneumonia.
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Barkham. Laboratory Safety Aspects of SARS at Biosafety Level 2.
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Guan et al. Recombinant Protein-based Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent
Assay and Immunochromatographic Tests for Detection of Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus in SARS Patients.
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He et al. Development of a Western Blot Assay for Detection of
Antibodies Against Coronavirus Causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Tan et al. Profiles of Antibody Responses Against Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Recombinant Proteins and Their Potential Use as Diagnostic Markers.
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Lopez et al. Nursing Care of Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in the Intensive
Care Unit: Case Reports in Hong Kong.
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Chan et al. Detection of SARS Coronavirus in Patients with Suspected
SARS.
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Chow et al. Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak.
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Lau et al. SARS Transmission among Hospital Workers in Hong Kong.
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Lau et al. Probable Secondary Infections in Households of SARS
Patients in Hong Kong.
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Tao et al. One-tube Nested RT-PCR Enabled by Using a Plastic Film and
Its Application for the Rapid Detection of SARS-virus.
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Weingartl et al. Susceptibility of Pigs and Chickens to SARS
Coronavirus.
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Yeh et al. Characterization of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Genomes in
Taiwan: Molecular Epidemiology and Genome Evolution.
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Zheng et al. SARS-related Virus Predating SARS Outbreak, Hong Kong.
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Chau et al. SARS-associated Viral Hepatitis Caused by a Novel Coronavirus: Report of Three
Cases.
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Sui et al. Potent Neutralization of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus by
a Human mAb to S1 Protein That blocks Receptor Association.
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Joynt et al. Late-stage Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome caused by Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome: Abnormal Findings at Thin-section CT.
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Chang et al. Antibody Detection of SARS-CoV Spike and Nucleocapsid Protein.
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To et al. Tissue and Cellular Tropism of the Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome: an In-situ Hybridization Study of Fatal Cases.
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Karlberg et al. Do Men have a Higher Case Fatality Rate of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Than Women do?
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Wu et al. Early Detection of Antibodies Against Various Structural Proteins of the
SARS-associated Coronavirus in SARS Patients.
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Ho et al. Antigenicity and Receptor-binding Ability of Recombinant SARS Coronavirus Spike
Protein.
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Guan et al. Molecular Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus That causes Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome.
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Li et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: 'SARS' or 'not SARS'.
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Ng et al. Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Blood of Infected
Patients.
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Liu et al. Profile of Antibodies to the Nucleocapsid Protein of the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-associated Coronavirus in Probable SARS Patients.
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Vlantis et al. The Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Otorhinolaryngological
Services at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.
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Chim et al. Genomic Sequencing of a SARS Coronavirus Isolate That predated the Metropole
Hotel Case Cluster in Hong Kong.
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Poon et al. Detection of SARS Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
by Conventional and Real-time Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays.
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Tang et al. Interpretation of Diagnostic Laboratory Tests for Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome: the Toronto Experience.
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Ng et al. Inflammatory Cytokine Profile in Children with Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome.
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Berger et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)--Paradigm of an Emerging Viral
Infection.
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Sun et al. Molecular Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Mass Spectrometric
Characterization of 3C-like Protease of SARS Coronavirus.
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Peiris et al. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Olsen et al. Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Aircraft.
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Chan-Yeung et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Shi et al. Diagnosis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) by Detection of SARS
Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Antibodies in an Antigen-capturing Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay.
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Poon et al. Early Diagnosis of SARS Coronavirus Infection by Real Time RT-PCR.
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Li et al. SARS-coronavirus Replicates in Mononuclear Cells of Peripheral Blood (PBMCs) from SARS Patients.
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Lau et al. A Real-time PCR for SARS-coronavirus Incorporating Target Gene
Pre-amplification.
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Xiao et al. The SARS-CoV S Glycoprotein: Expression and Functional Characterization.
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Ng et al. Proliferative Growth of SARS Coronavirus in Vero E6 cells.
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Lee & Sung. Nosocomial Transmission of SARS.
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Hung et al. Detection of SARS Coronavirus RNA in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Patient with
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Ng et al. Serial Analysis of the Plasma Concentration of SARS Coronavirus RNA in Pediatric
Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Choi et al. Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 267 Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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Ng et al. Quantitative Analysis and Prognostic Implication of SARS Coronavirus RNA in the
Plasma and Serum of Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Wang et al. Assessment of Immunoreactive Synthetic Peptides from the Structural Proteins of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
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Li et al. Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 is a Functional Receptor for the SARS
Coronavirus.
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Chim et al. Genomic Characterisation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus of
Amoy Gardens Outbreak in Hong Kong.
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Chan et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus Infection.
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Tsang et al. Coronavirus-positive Nasopharyngeal Aspirate as Predictor for Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Mortality.
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Babyn et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Chest Radiographic Features in Children.
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Wang et al. Viral Discovery and Sequence Recovery Using DNA Microarrays.
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Jenwitheesuk and Samudrala. Identifying Inhibitors of the SARS Coronavirus Proteinase.
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Hemila. Vitamin C and SARS Coronavirus.
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Chiu et al. Molecular Epidemiology of SARS -- from Amoy Gardens to Taiwan.
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Choi et al. Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in 267 Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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Ooi et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Radiographic Evaluation and Clinical Outcome Measures.
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Leung et al. The Impact of Community Psychological Responses on Outbreak Control for Severe Cute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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Lau et al. Monitoring Community Responses to the SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong: from Day 10 to Day 62.
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Senior. Recent Singapore SARS Case - A laboratory Accident.
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Antonio et al. Imaging in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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Chiu. Taiwanese Scientists find Genetic Link to SARS.
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Kwan et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in a Hemodialysis
Patient.
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Wong et al. ClinicaL Presentation and Outcome of Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome in Dialysis Patients.
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Martina et al. Virology: SARS Virus Infection of Cats and Ferrets.
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Yount et al. Reverse Genetics with a Full-length Infectious cDNA of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus.
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Zhong et al. Epidemiology and Cause of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong, People's Republic of China, in February, 2003.
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Yu et al. Prevalence of IgG Antibody to SARS-associated Coronavirus in Animal
Traders--Guangdong Province, China, 2003.
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Wang et al. Detection of the Anti-SARS-Coronavirus Specific
Antibody Levels in 156 SARS Patients.
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Wong et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Children.
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Knowles et al. Common Adverse Events Associated with the Use of Ribavirin for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada.
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Ho et al. An Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome among Hospital Workers in a Community Hospital in Hong Kong.
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Liu J. SARS, Wildlife, and Human Health.
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Yam et al. Evaluation of Reverse Transcription-PCR Assays for Rapid Diagnosis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Associated with a Novel Coronavirus.
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Shek et al. Infants Born to Mothers with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Zhang et al. De Novo Synthesis of PCR Templates for the Development of SARS Diagnostic Assay.
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Duan et al. Stability of SARS Coronavirus in Human Specimens and Environment and Its
Sensitivity to Heating and UV Irradiation.
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Yap et al. Relationship of SARS-CoV to Other Pathogenic RNA Viruses Explored by Tetranucleotide Usage Profiling.
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O'Donnell et al. SARS: Understanding the Coronavirus: Apoptosis may explain Lymphopenia of SARS.
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Lin et al. Association of HLA Class I with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.
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Guan et al. Isolation and Characterization of Viruses Related to the SARS Coronavirus from Animals in Southern China.
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Tsang et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong.
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Wang et al. Dynamic Changes in Blood Cytokine Levels as Clinical Indicators in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Chan et al. Human Metapneumovirus Detection in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Tsang and Lam. Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - The Hong Kong University Experience.
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Cui et al. Expression of Lymphocytes and Lymphocyte Subsets in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Ho et al. High Dose Pulse Versus Non-pulse Corticosteroid Regimens in Severe Acute Respiratroy Syndrome.
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Chan et al. Coronavirus in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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Galvani et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Temporal Stability and Geographic Variation in Case-Fatality Rates and Doubling Times.
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Cinatl et al. Treatment of SARS with Human Interferons.
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Kuiken et al. Newly Discovered Coronavirus as the Primary Cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Wong et al. Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome with Convalescent Plasma.
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Wong et al. Haematological Manifestations in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Retrospective Analysis.
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Wong et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in a Geriatric Patient with a Hip Fracture: a Case Report.
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Cinatl et al. Glycyrrhizin, an Active Component of Liquorice Roots, and Replication of SARS-associated Coronavirus.
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Fook et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Viral Mimicry.
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Panesar. Lymphopenia in SARS.
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Zhang. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Its Lesions in Digestive System.
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Nie et al. Advances in Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Zhang et al. Morphology and Morphogenesis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-associated Virus.
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Qin et al. Identification of Probable Genomic Packaging Signal Sequence from SARS-CoV Genome by Bioinformatics Analysis.
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Shen et al. Small Envelope Protein E of SARS: Cloning, Expression, Purification, CD Determination, and Bioinformatics Analysis.
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Xiong et al. A 3D model of SARS-CoV 3CL Proteinase and Its Inhibitors Design by Virtual Screening.
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Yu et al. Putative hAPN Receptor Binding Sites in SARS_CoV Spike Protein.
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Avendano et al. Clinical Course and Management of SARS in Health Care Workers in Toronto: A Case Series.
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Holmes. SARS Coronavirus: A New Challenge for Prevention and Therapy.
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Parry. Data show that SARS is gradually coming under control.
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Krokhin et al. Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Proteins from the SARS Virus: a Preliminary Report.
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Dwosh et al. Identification and Containment of an Outbreak of SARS in a Community Hospital.
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Gottlieb. Chinese Scientists must test Wild Animals to find the Host of SARS.
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Update 64 - Situation in Toronto, Detection of SARS-like Virus in Wild Animal.
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Dye and Gay. Modeling the SARS Epidemic.
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Lipsitch et al. Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Riley et al. Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions.
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Wong et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Radiographic Appearances and Pattern of
Progression in 138 Patients.
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Fisher et al. Preventing Local Transmission of SARS: Lessons from Singapore.
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Parry. China is Still Not Open Enough About SARS, says WHO.
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Nicholls et al. Lung Pathology of Fatal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Drazen and Campion. SARS, the Internet, and the Journal.
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Drosten and Preiser. Kamps and Hoffmann (eds). SARS Reference.
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Fouchier et al. Aetiology: Koch's Postulates Fulfilled for SARS Virus.
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Holmes. SARS-Associated Coronavirus.
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Nicolaou et al. Radiologic Manifestations of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Oba. The Use of Corticosteroids in SARS.
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Ofner et al. Cluster of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Cases Among Protected Health
Care Workers - Toronto, April 2003.
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Reilley et al. SARS and Carlo Urbani.
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Vu et al. SARS in Northern Vietnam.
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Wenzel and Edmond. Managing SARS amidst Uncertainty.
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Anand et al. Coronavirus Main Proteinase (3CLMpro) Structure: Basis for Design of anti-SARS
Drugs.
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So et al. Development of a Standard Treatment Protocol for Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome.
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Peiris et al. Clinical Progression and Viral Load in A Community Outbreak of
Coronavirus-associated SARS Pneumonia: A Prospective Study.
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Ruan et al. Comparative Full-length Genome Sequence Analysis of 14
SARS Coronavirus Isolates and Common Mutations Associated with Putative Origins of Infection.
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Brown and Tetro. Comparative Analysis of the SARS Coronavirus Genome: A Good Start to a
Long Journey.
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Lapinsky and Hawryluck. ICU Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Wong et al. Thin-Section CT of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Evaluation of 73 Patients
Exposed to or with the Disease.
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Donnelly et al. Epidemiological Determinants of Spread of Causal Agent of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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WHO. SARS Case Fatality Ratio, Incubation Period.
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CMAJ Editorial. Lessons from SARS.
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Booth et al. Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 144 Patients With
SARS in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Masur et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Providing Care in the Face of Uncertainty.
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Seto et al. Effectiveness of Precautions Against Droplets and Contact in Prevention of
Nosocomial Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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Tomlinson and Cockram. SARS: Experience at Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
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Wu and Sung. Haemorrhagic-fever-like Changes and Normal Chest Radiograph in a Doctor with
SARS.
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Razum et al. SARS, lay Epidemiology, and Fear.
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Canada Communicable Disease Report. The War Against an Unknown Pathogen: Rising to the SARS Challenge.
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Hoey. Updated SARS Case Definition Using Laboratory Criteria.
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Marra et al. The Genome Sequence of the SARS-Associated Coronavirus.
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Rota et al. Characterization of a Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome.
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Hon et al. Clinical Presentations and Outcome of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome in Children.
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Green. Asian Heroes 2003 - The SARS Fighters.
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Twu et al. Control Measures for Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan.
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Hsu et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) in Singapore: Clinical Features of Index Patient and Initial Contacts.
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Zambon. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Revisited.
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Chan-Yeung and Yu. Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Case Report.
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Poon et al. Rapid Diagnosis of a Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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Koren et al. Ribavirin in the Treatment of SARS: A New Trick for an
Old Drug?
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Patrick. The Race to outpace Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
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Maunder et al. The Immediate Psychological and Occupational Impact
of the 2003 SARS Outbreak in a Teaching Hospital.
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Peiris et al. Coronavirus
as a Possible Cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Ho W. Guideline on Management of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Ksiazek et al. A Novel Coronavirus
Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Drosten et al. Identification of a Novel Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome.
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Falsey and Walsh. Novel Coronavirus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Lee et al. A Major Outbreak of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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Gerberding. Faster . . . but Fast Enough?
Responding to the Epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Drazen. Case Clusters of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Poutanen et al. Identification of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome in Canada.
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Tsang et al. A Cluster
of Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
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The Lancet
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SLIDE PRESENTATION & PRESS RELEASE
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WHO Global Conference on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
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Revision of the International Health Regulations, Resolution to the WHO World Health Assembly.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Status of the Outbreak and Lessons for the Immediate Future.
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Public Health Community Preparedness for Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) by CDC, USA
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Modeling the SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong |
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HKU to Study Antiviral Agents on Stopping Entry of Coronavirus - A
Probably New treatment for Coronavirus Pneumonia Patients
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