A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Wuhan Institute of Virology · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 18 years ago, a large number of SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats 1–4 . Previous studies have shown that some bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans 5–7 . Here we report the identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China. The epidemic, which started on 12 December 2019, had caused 2,794 laboratory-confirmed infections including 80 deaths by 26 January 2020. Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at an early stage of the outbreak. The…
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- 538.08
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- 100%
- References
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Authors
29- PZPeng ZhouCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Virology
- XYXing‐Lou Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Virology
- XWXian-Guang Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan City Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuhan Institute of Virology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- BHBen Hu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Virology
- LZLei Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Topics & keywords
- Outbreak
- Pneumonia
- Coronavirus
- Virology
- Biology
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Virus
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Good health and well-being