Open AccessDetection of the New Human Coronavirus HKU1: A Report of 6 Cases
Author(s) -
Astrid Vabret,
Julia Dina,
S. Gouarin,
J. Petitjean,
Sandrine Corbet,
F. Freymuth∘
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/500136
Subject(s) - coronavirus , covid-19 , virology , computer science , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Human coronavirus HKU1 (HCoV-HKU1), a new group 2 coronavirus, was first characterized in 2005 from 2 adults with pneumonia in Hong Kong, China. To the best of our knowledge, there is no other report to date about the detection of this new virus. We report a molecular method allowing for the detection of HCoV-HKU1 and also report the clinical presentation of 6 infected patients.
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