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Using the Taiwan nationwide laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) database, we analyzed neutralizing antibody in relation to clinical outcomes. With a linear mixed model, neutralizing antibody titer was shown to peak between week 5 and week 8 after onset and to decline thereafter, with a half-life of 6.4 weeks. Patients with a longer illness showed a lower neutralizing antibody response than patients with a shorter illness duration (p = 0.008). When early responders were compared with most patients, who seroconverted on and after week 3 of illness, the small proportion (17.4%) of early responders (antibody detectable within 2 weeks) had a higher death rate (29.6 % vs. 7.8%) (Fisher exact test, p = 0.004), had a shorter survival time of <2 weeks (Fisher exact test, p = 0.013), and were more likely to be> 60 years of age (Fisher exact test, p = 0.01). Our findings have implications for understanding the pathogenesis of SARS and for SARS vaccine research and development. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged infectious disease. Its etiologic agent is a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV) (1,2), which can readily infect a variety of wild and laboratory animals without causing apparent clinical symptoms (3,4), making the existence of an animal reservoir possible. In humans, SARS appears with a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from selflimited pneumonia to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and death (5,6). Anecdotally, asymptomatic infection has also been reported (7). Autopsies of SARS patients have found the virus to be widespread throughout a variety of tissues and organs (8). During the acute phase, the virus is found in the excreta of

at the Audubon Sugar Institute especially Dr. Chang-Ho Chung and Dr. Giovanna De Queiroz for their valuable discussion and help since I started my work.

Sinica. The theoretical efforts include works using the B-spline-based configuration interaction (BSCI) and multichannel K-matirx (BSK) approaches by Tu-nan Chang and his theory group at the University of Southern California and the complex-rotation method by Yew Kam Eugene Ho at IAMS. Many

Fragment of tegument protein pp65 of human cytomegalovirus induces autoantibodies in BALB/c mice Ao-Ho Hsieh 1, Yí-Jyun Jhou 2, Chung-Ting Liang 3, Mingi Chang 4* † and Shih-Lien Wang 2*† Introduction: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection has been implicated in the development of autoimmunity

Drug discovery from Chinese medicine against neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia Yuen-Shan Ho 1 * , Kwok-Fai So 1,2,3 and Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang 1,2,3* Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia are two major diseases associated with dementia, which is common among the elderly

Copyright © 2015 Ho Seok Chung et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study investigated whether Korean red

- Ke Zhu, Weiwei Wu, Chung-I Ho, Haojie Chen and Joel Gomez, for the friendship, never-to-stop argument for the truth, and the sparks generated in our interactions. i To my parents who nurture and educate me ii In 1985, M. Gromov proved that any symplectic sphere of degree 1 in CP2 is isotopic

Corporate Governance determinants of voluntary disclosure and its effects on information asymmetry: an analysis for Iberian Peninsula listed companies.

In this thesis, two sets of experimental studies in bosonic and fermionic gases are described. In the first part of the thesis, itinerant ferromagnetism was studied in a strongly interacting Fermi gas of ultracold atoms. The observation of nonmonotonic behavior of lifetime, kinetic energy, and size for increasing repulsive interactions pro-vides strong evidence for a phase transition to a ferromagnetic state. Our observations imply that itinerant ferromagnetism of delocalized fermions is possible without lattice and band structure, and our data validate the most basic model for ferromagnetism introduced by Stoner. In the second part of the thesis, the coherence properties of a Bose-Einstein con-densate (BEC) was studied in a radio frequency induced double-well potential imple-mented on a microfabricated atom chip. We observed phase coherence between the separated condensates for times up to 200 ms after splitting, a factor of 10 longer than the phase diffusion time expected for a coherent state for our experimental con-ditions. The enhanced coherence time is attributed to number squeezing of the initial