Article
Prevalence and molecular epidemiology of human coronavirus HKU1 in patients with acute respiratory illness.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 2013
Lee Wan-Ji, Chung Yoon-Seok, Yoon Hee Sook, Kang Chun, Kim Kisoon
Abstract excerpt
In 2005, human coronavirus HKU1 (HCoV-HKU1) was isolated and identified from a 71-year-old man with pneumonia in Hong Kong. To identify and classify genotypes of HCoV-HKU1 in Korea, a sensitive, specific, and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed and analyzed the sequences of HCoV-HKU1 isolated in Korea. A total of 1,985 respiratory specimens taken from patients with acute...
Topics
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Infections
- Genotype
- Humans
- Korea
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleocapsid
- RNA, Viral
- RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Respiratory Tract Infections
- Seasons