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SUBMITTER: Stadlbauer D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7235504 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stadlbauer Daniel D Amanat Fatima F Chromikova Veronika V Jiang Kaijun K Strohmeier Shirin S Arunkumar Guha Asthagiri GA Tan Jessica J Bhavsar Disha D Capuano Christina C Kirkpatrick Ericka E Meade Philip P Brito Ruhi Nichalle RN Teo Catherine C McMahon Meagan M Simon Viviana V Krammer Florian F
Current protocols in microbiology 20200601 1
In late 2019, cases of atypical pneumonia were detected in China. The etiological agent was quickly identified as a betacoronavirus (named SARS-CoV-2), which has since caused a pandemic. Several methods allowing for the specific detection of viral nucleic acids have been established, but these only allow detection of the virus during a short period of time, generally during acute infection. Serological assays are urgently needed to conduct serosurveys, to understand the antibody responses mounte ...[more]