Tan, Timothy H.P.Barkham, TimothyFielding, Burtram C.Chou, Chih-FongShen, ShuoLim, Seng GeeHong, WanjinTan, Yee-Joo2013-10-122013-10-122005Tan, T., et al. (2005). Genetic lesions within the 3a gene of SARS-CoV. Virology Journal, 2: 5110.1186/1743-422X-2-51http://hdl.handle.net/10566/745A series of frameshift mutations within the 3a gene has been observed in culture-derived severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). We report here that viral RNA from clinical samples obtained from SARS-CoV infected patients also contains a heterogeneous population of wild-type and mutant 3a transcripts.en© 2005 Tan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Article