Patent ID: 7374883

Claim:
A kit for detecting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated virus (SARS-associated virus), named HPAC (Human Pneumonia-Associated Coronavirus), comprising a forward primer that is 18 to 31 nucleotides in length and binds to a region defined by nucleotides 69 to 98 of the sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:1; a reverse primer that is 18 to 31 nucleotides in length and binds to a region defined by nucleotides 123 to 168 of the sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:1; and a probe that is 18 to 35 nucleotides in length, binds to a region defined by nucleotides 89 to 132 of the sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:1, and is labeled with a fluorescent reporter dye, and a quencher dye, wherein the forward and reverse primers are capable of amplifying a nucleic acid fragment using SEQ ID NO:1 and its complement as templates, and the probe is capable of detecting the presence of the amplified nucleic acid fragment.