McIntosh K, McQuillin J, Reed S E, Gardner P S
J Med Virol. 1978;2(4):341-6. doi: 10.1002/jmv.1890020407.
Rabbit antisera were prepared against coronavirus strains 229E and OC43 and used successfully to detect viral antigen in epithelial cells shed from the nasopharynx of symptomatic volunteers who had received coronavirus inocula three to four days before. The same serologic reagents were applied to nasopharyngeal secretion cells obtained from 106 infants and children hospitalized with respiratory tract disease and apparently not infected with conventional respiratory viruses. No coronavirus infections were detected by this method. It appears that coronavirus OC43 or 229E infections were not common in children in Tyneside hospitals during the period of study. However, fluorescence is a useful method for detection of coronavirus infections in symptomatic human subjects.
制备了针对冠状病毒株229E和OC43的兔抗血清,并成功用于检测有症状志愿者鼻咽部脱落上皮细胞中的病毒抗原,这些志愿者在三到四天前接种了冠状病毒。将相同的血清学试剂应用于从106名因呼吸道疾病住院且显然未感染传统呼吸道病毒的婴幼儿获取的鼻咽分泌细胞。通过这种方法未检测到冠状病毒感染。在研究期间,泰恩赛德医院的儿童中似乎未常见冠状病毒OC43或229E感染。然而,荧光法是检测有症状人类受试者冠状病毒感染的一种有用方法。