From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

Zhu, Zhixing; Lian, Xihua; Su, Xiaoshan; Wu, Weijing; A. Marraro, Giuseppe; Zeng, Yiming

doi:10.1186/s12931-020-01479-w

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From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

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Zhixing Zhu

Xihua Lian

Xiaoshan Su

Abstract

Abstract Within two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human coronaviruses, namely SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. The economic burden and health threats caused by these coronaviruses are extremely dreadful and getting more serious as the increasing number of global in...

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