id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-256109-dkp0fwe3 Mazzulli, Tony Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–associated Coronavirus in Lung Tissue 2004-01-17 .txt text/plain 2554 115 53 Efforts to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have been limited by the lack of a standardized, sensitive, and specific test for SARS-associated coronavirus (CoV). Efforts to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have been limited by the lack of a standardized, sensitive, and specific test for SARS-associated coronavirus (CoV). All patients who met the current World Health Organization case definition of probable SARS and who underwent a postmortem examination in Canada during the March-April 2003 outbreak were included in this study. The clinical description and RT-PCR results for the 11 patients with probable SARS from whom postmortem lung tissue samples were examined are summarized in Table 1 . By using a standardized RT-PCR assay, SARS-CoV has been unequivocally identified in the lung tissue of all patients who died with probable SARS but not in any of the controls. ./cache/cord-256109-dkp0fwe3.txt ./txt/cord-256109-dkp0fwe3.txt