Volume 11, Number 12, December 2005

SARS-CoV Infection in a Restaurant from Palm Civet

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§ and Jianguo Xu†‡
*Guangzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangdong, People's Republic of China; †National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China; ‡State Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, Bejing, People's Republic of China; and §University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Figure. Phylogenetic relationships of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus isolates based on the spike gene. The neighbor-joining tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining process with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. The origins of the sequences are as follows: Civet007, Civet010, Civet019, Civet020, and Civet014, palm civets from the restaurant; GD03T0013, the first SARS patient in 2004; SZ3 and SZ16, palm civets from a Shenzhen market in 2003; GZ60, HGZ8L1-A, ZS-A, ZS-B, ZS-C, and GD01, early phase isolates in 2003 without the 29-nucleotide (nt) deletion; GZ02, HSZ-Bb, HSZ-Bc, HSZ-Cb, and HSZ-Cc, early phase isolates from the 2003 epidemic with an 82-nt deletion; GZ50, HKU-36871, HKU-39849, HKU-65806, CUHK-W1, CUHK-Su10, BJ01, BJ03, Fra, Tor2, and Urbani, middle and late phase isolates from the 2003 epidemic.

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