From a NIH Press Release dated 2 July 2007:
"An international team of investigators has identified the first human antibodies that can neutralize different strains of the virus responsible for outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). "
The team included members of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and other organizations. The findings are said to appear in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (Citation: Zhu Z, Chakraborti S, He Y, Roberts A, Sheahan T, Xiao X, Hensley LE, Prabakaran P, Rockx B, Sidorov IA, Corti D, Vogel L, Feng Y, Kim J, Wang L, Baric R, Lanzavecchia A, Curtis KM, Nabel GJ, Subbarao K, Jiang S, Dimitrov D. Potent cross-reactive neutralization of SARS coronavirus isolates by human monoclonal antibodies. "Proc Natl Acad Sci USA". Vol. 104, No. 27. July 3, 2007).
See the full press release here.
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