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cord-303171-u5jrbsii	Yang, Gee-Gwo	SARS-associated Coronavirus Infection in Teenagers	2004-02-17		.txt	text/plain	1226	83	66	On April 28, when a student (case-patient 1) visited the school nurse on the first day that he had a fever, an infection specialist from affiliated Tzu-Chi Medical Center immediately responded. All nine schoolmates underwent chest x-ray examinations and were tested for SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS -CoV) by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) (4) and DNA sequencing. Six schoolmates were positive for SARS-CoV by RT-PCR, confirmed later by DNA sequencing for replicase. No new cases of fever have occurred in Tzu-Chi High School in the 2 months since these patients' isolation. Six schoolmates with fever were confirmed by real-time RT-PCR and DNA sequences to have SARS-CoV infection. Worldwide, SARS-CoV infection has been clinically severe, characterized by respiratory distress and a 15% average mortality rate (6) (7) (8) . Our teenagers with presumed SARS-CoV infection had very mild courses. The benign course of SARS-CoV infection in our teenage students supports the WHO finding of less-severe disease in younger persons.	./cache/cord-303171-u5jrbsii.txt	./txt/cord-303171-u5jrbsii.txt