Table 1.

Summary of investigations of SARS-CoV in masked palm civets from markets, farms and wild^a

Market/farm/wild	Samples		Anitibody		Nucleic acid/virus		Reference
	Location (Province)	Sample date	Methods	Prevalence	Method	Prevalence
Market	Shenzheng (Guangdong)	May, 2003	VNT	3/4 (75%)	RT-PCR, isolation	6/6 (100%)	Guan et al. (2003)
Market	Xinyuan (Guangdong)	May, 2003	ND	ND	RT-PCR	2/7 (29%)	Tu et al. (2004)
Market	Xinyuan (Guangdong)	January, 2004	ND	ND	RT-PCR	91/91 (100%)	Kan et al. (2005)
Market	Xinyuan (Guangdong)	January, 2004	VNT, IFA, WB	14/18 (78%)	RT-PCR	0/18	Tu et al. (2004)
Market	Guangzhou (Guangdong)	November, 2004	ND	ND	Real-time RT-PCR	0/12	Wang et al., 2005a, Wang et al., 2005b
Market	Shenzheng (Guangdong)	December, 2004	ND	ND	Real-time RT-PCR	0/12	Wang et al., 2005a, Wang et al., 2005b
Farm	Luoning (Henan)	June, 2003	VNT, IFA	0/17	ND	ND	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	Changsha (Hunan)	June, 2003	VNT, IFA	0/30	ND	ND	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	Qianguan (Guangdong)	January, 2004	VNT, IFA	0/9	RT-PCR	0/9	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	Shanguan (Guangdong)	January, 2004	VNT, IFA	0/10	RT-PCR	0/10	Tu et al., 2004
Farm	Shanwei (Guangdong)	January, 2004	VNT, IFA, WB	4/10 (40%)	RT-PCR	0/10	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	Zhuhai (Guangdong)	January, 2004	VNT, IFA	0/10	RT-PCR	0/10	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	Guangzhou (Guangdong)	May, 2003	ND	ND	RT-PCR	2/9 (22%)	Tu et al. (2004)
Farm	(Jiangxi)	May, 2003	ND	ND	RT-PCR	0/15	Tu et al. (2004)
25 Farms	(12 Provinces)	January–September, 2004	ND	ND	RT-PCR	0/1107	Kan et al. (2005)
Farm	(Hubei)	April, 2004	ND	ND	Real-time RT-PCR	7/7 (100%)	Hu et al. (2005)
Wild	Hong Kong	2003–2004	VNT	0/21	RT-PCR	0/21	Poon et al. (2005)

^aND, not done; VNT, virus neutralization test; IFA, immunofluorescent antibody test; WB, Western blot test.