SARS-CoV Infection in a Restaurant from Palm Civet

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2006 Feb 21

PMID 16485471

Citations 160

Authors

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

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Abstract

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. Phylogenetic analysis showed that SARS-CoV from palm civets in the restaurant was most closely related to animal isolates. SARS cases at the restaurant were the result of recent interspecies transfer from the putative palm civet reservoir, and not the result of continued circulation of SARS-CoV in the human population.

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