Special new information on the emerging SARS coronavirus is found on this page.

SARS epidemiology

• SARS projected cases to April 30, 2003 (.pdf file)

• SARS projected cases to October 31, 2003 (.pdf file)

• SARS possible origin in Xinjiang Chinese desert Bactrian Camel coronavirus? (.doc file)

• SARS illness suggestive of rat coronavirus illness (.doc)

SARS virology/molecular biology

• SARS coronavirus targeting CD13 antigen and causing FcgammaR response in infected persons (article published here)

• SARS coronavirus E2-spike protein contains superantigen at residues 690 through 1050 (article published here)

• SARS entire genome BLAST-x (translation of DNA to protein BLAST) as a .pdf file

• SARS cornavirus and 6 other coronaviruses in a multiple sequence alignment (.pdf file)

• SARS E2 spike protein multiple sequence alignment comparison to 12 other coronaviruses (.doc file)

• SARS E2 spike protein BLAST-x (.pdf file)

• SARS E2 spike protein phylogeny (.pdf file)

• SARS E2 spike protein radial phylogeny (.pdf file)

SARS treatment hypotheses

• SARS treatment hypotheses I (.doc file)

• SARS treatment hypotheses II (.doc file)