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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
NEW YORK -- The novel coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome has rapidly yielded many of its secrets to concerted efforts by clinicians and basic researchers worldwide.
Within a year after the virus was established as the etiologic agent of SARS, the complete genomic sequences of several isolates had been generated, the virus's cellular receptor identified, its mode of replication and trans-mission described, and its likely reservoir determined.
A highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic test is now available, a vaccine has been developed and found effective in a monkey model, specific drug therapies are being evaluated, and, with only four cases...
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