Volume 10, Number 9, September 2004

SARS Antibody Test for Serosurveillance

Po-Ren Hsueh,* Chuan-Liang Kao,* Chun-Nan Lee,* Li-Kuan Chen,† Mei-Shang Ho,‡ Charles Sia,§¶ Xin De Fang,§ Shugene Lynn,¶ Tseng Yuan Chang,§ Shi Kau Liu,§ Alan M. Walfield,§ and Chang Yi Wang§¶
*National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †Tsu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; ‡Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; §United Biomedical, Inc., Hauppauge, New York, USA; and ¶United Biomedical, Inc. Asia, Hsin Chu, Taiwan

Figure 1. Distribution of tested specimens. Signal/cutoff (S/C) distribution of Center for Disease Control (Taiwan) SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) serum panel and blood donor serum panel. The mean signal/cutoff (S/C) ratio for the SARS samples was 8.08. The mean S/C for the 1,390 normal human plasma was 0.28.

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