Evaluation of advanced reverse transcription-PCR assays and an alternative PCR target region for detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on May 01, 2004

Authors

Christian Drosten1, Lily-Lily Chiu, Marcus Panning, Hoe Nam Leong, Wolfgang Preiser, John S Tam, Stephan Günther, Stefanie Kramme, Petra Emmerich, Wooi Loon Ng, Herbert Schmitz, Evelyn S C Koay

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. drosten@bni-hamburg.de

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