id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285179-26ey3fm8 Chan, Kwok-Hung Cross-reactive antibodies in convalescent SARS patients' sera against the emerging novel human coronavirus EMC (2012) by both immunofluorescent and neutralizing antibody tests 2013-04-10 .txt text/plain 5270 278 52 title: Cross-reactive antibodies in convalescent SARS patients' sera against the emerging novel human coronavirus EMC (2012) by both immunofluorescent and neutralizing antibody tests We conducted a seroprevalence study on archived sera from 94 game-food animal handlers at a wild life market, 28 SARS patients, and 152 healthy blood donors in Southern China to assess the zoonotic potential and evidence for intrusion of HCoV-EMC and related viruses into humans. 12 In order to further substantiate the hypothesis of HCoV-EMC being a zoonotic agent and elicit evidence for intrusion of HCoV-EMC and its related viruses into humans, we studied the antibody titers using immunofluorescence (IF) as screening and neutralization as confirmatory tests in at-risk groups working in a wild life market in Guangzhou of Southern China who were constantly exposed to a wide range of game food animals, SARS patients who might have acquired their infection directly from wild animals, and healthy blood donors. ./cache/cord-285179-26ey3fm8.txt ./txt/cord-285179-26ey3fm8.txt