Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2004)

Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

  • Pierce K. H. Chow,
  • Eng-Eong Ooi,
  • Hiang-Khoon Tan,
  • Kong-Wee Ong,
  • Bijon Kumar Sil,
  • Melissa Teo,
  • Timothy Ng,
  • Khee-Chee Soo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1002.030397
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 249 – 250

Abstract

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Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed had specific antibodies and suggests that subclinical SARS is not an important feature of the disease.

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