Ming Wang, Meiying Yan, Huifang Xu, Weili Liang, Biao Kan, Bojian Zheng, Honglin Chen, Han Zheng, Yanmei Xu, Enmin Zhang, Hongxia Wang, Jingrong Ye, Guichang Li, Machao Li, Zhigang Cui, Yu-Fei Liu, Rong-Tong Guo, Xiao-Ning Liu, Liu-Hua Zhan, Duan-Hua Zhou, Ailan Zhao, Rong Hai, Dongzhen Yu, Yi Guan, Jianguo Xu
Epidemiologic investigations showed that 2 of 4 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) identified in the winter of 2003-2004 were a waitresss at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, that served palm civets as food and a customer who ate in the restaurant ashort distance from animal cages. All 6 palm civets at the restaurant were positive for SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Partial spike (S) gene sequences of SARS-CoV from the 2 patients were identical to 4 of 5 Sgene viral sequences from palm civets...
December 2005: Emerging Infectious Diseases