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Christian Drosten1, Hans Wilhelm Doerr, Wilina Lim
1Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|January 25, 2005
Abstract:
Inactivated severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus samples were used for an external quality assurance study within the World Health Organization SARS Reference and Verification Network and other reference institutions. Of 58 participants, 51 correctly detected virus in all samples > or =9,400 RNA copies per milliliter and none in negative samples. Commercial test kits significantly improved the outcome.
