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Who was the first person to discover sars?
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5 groups: The SARS coronavirus was almost simultaneously isolated from SARS patients by several laboratories and found to be only distantly related to all previously characterized human or animal coronaviruses. Peiris JS- lancet 2003 361:1319-1325, Ksiazek TG- nejm 2003 3489:1953-1966, Drosten C- nejm 2003 348:1967-1976 are 3 of the 5 publications by groups that shared in the discovery.
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