The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

E. Gorbalenya, Alexander; C. Baker, Susan; S. Baric, Ralph; J. de Groot, Raoul; Drosten, Christian; Gulyaeva, Anastasia; L. Haagmans, Bart; Lauber, Chris; M. Leontovich, A.; W. Neuman, Benjamin; Penzar, Dmitry; Perlman, Stanley; L. M. Poon, Leo; V. Samborskiy, Dmitry; A. Sidorov, Igor; Sola, Isabel; Ziebuhr, John

doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0695-z

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The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

Published in Nature Microbiology • Mar 2, 2020

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Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Susan C. Baker

Ralph S. Baric

Abstract

The present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the third documented spillover of an animal coronavirus to humans in only two decades that has resulted in a major epidemic. The Coronaviridae Study Group (CSG) of the International...

Subject

Coronaviridae

Coronavirus

Outbreak

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