Antibody Offers Way to Diagnose SARS

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Antibody Offers Way to Diagnose SARS

China has received encouraging results from a potential test for SARS that uses antibodies to diagnose the disease.

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China has received encouraging results from a potential test for SARS that uses antibodies to diagnose the disease.

Head of the Guangdong research institute for respiratory diseases, Zhong Nanshan, says the test looks for an antibody known as IgG, which the body produces in response to the virus that causes SARS.

Until now, identifying SARS has been a matter of finding signs of the disease, such as high white blood cell counts and damaged lungs.

Researchers around the world have been racing to find experimental screening tests to detect the virus, but some of the tests developed have missed the bug in early stages of infection.

Zhong Nanshan says tests for the presence of the IgG antibody as an indicator of SARS are being conducted in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. But the mainland was the first to conclude its trials

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