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Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003
Research

Human Metapneumovirus Detection in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Rickjason C. W. Chan*Comments to Author , John S. Tam*, Ching-Wan Lam*, Edward Chan*, Alan Wu*, Chi-Kong Li*, Thomas A. Buckley*, King-Cheung Ng*, Gavin M. Joynt*, Frankie W.T. Cheng*, Ka-Fai To*, Nelson Lee*, David S.C. Hui*, Jo L.K. Cheung*, Ida Chu*, Esther Liu*, Sydney S.C. Chung*, and Joseph J.Y. Sung*
Author affiliations: *Faculty of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Table

Distribution of human metapneumovirus reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction results among 25 positive nasopharyngeal aspiratesa,b

No. of patients (%) Human metapneumovirus F-gene sequence detected by RT-PCR
Nasopharyngeal aspirate HEp-2 cells LLC-MK2 cells MDCK cells
1 (4.0)
Positive
Positive
Positive
Positive
1 (4.0)
Positive
Positive
Positive
Negative
1 (4.0)
Negative
Positive
Positive
Negative
1 (4.0)
Negative
Positive
Negative
Positive
18 (72.0)
Negative
Positive
Negative
Negative
3 (12.0) Negative Negative Positive Negative

aRT-PCR, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; Hep-2, human laryngeal carcinoma monolayer; LLC-MK2, rhesus monkey kidney monolayer; MDCK, Mardin Darby Canine Kidney monolayer; BGM, Buffalo green monkey kidney monolayer.
bThe human metapneumovirus RT-PCR results for all human embryonic lung fibroblast, BGM and Vero cell cultures were negative.

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