Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

Pierce K. H. Chow, Khee-Chee Soo, Melissa Teo, Eng Eong Ooi, Kong Wee Ong, Bijon Kumar Sil, Hiang-Khoon Tan, Timothy Ng

Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed had specific antibodies and suggests that subclinical SARS is not an important feature of the disease.

2004

Outbreak, healthcare workers, dispatch, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Seroconversion, subclinical infection

DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030397

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine