Table 1.

Continued

Sensitivity†	Specimens	Comparisons	Reference
10 GE	49	Nested and real-time assays had equivalent sensitivity for 18 specimens	Drosten et al., 200312
100 GE	19 patients	PCR more sensitive than culture	Ksiazek et al., 200313
NP	10 patients	5 of 6 patients were PCR-positive	Poutenen et al., 200310
10 GE	68	CBH nested and nonnested TaqMan RT-PCR Artus assay	Mahony et al., 200415
NP	116	No	Wang et al., 200418
1 to 10 GE	44	No-Detects other CoV as well as SARS-CoV	Adachi et al., 200421
NP	No	No-Detects other CoV as well as SARS-CoV	Woo et al., 20056
6 to 8 GE	16	No	Houng et al., 200419
NP	No	RT-PCR more sensitive than culture	Chan et al., 200432
NP	66	Artus, compared Roche and in-house assays	Drosten et al., 200417
90 GE	No	pollb and nuc RT-PCR had similar sensitivities	Bressler and Nolte, 200416
10 GE	86	No 18S-rRNA as internal control	Poon et al., 200420
NP	120	One CHB PCR followed by second TaqMan PCR assay	Lau et al., 200314
0.01 pfu	59	LAMP detected seven additional positives	Thai et al., 200422