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Emerging coronaviruses: Genome structure, replication, and pathogenesis
Author(s) -
Chen Yu,
Liu Qianyun,
Guo Deyin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.25681
Subject(s) - coronavirus , biology , covid-19 , virology , genome , outbreak , pandemic , betacoronavirus , pneumonia , computational biology , genetics , medicine , gene , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus (2019‐nCoV), which is causing an outbreak of unusual viral pneumonia in patients in Wuhan, a central city in China, is another warning of the risk of CoVs posed to public health. In this minireview, we provide a brief introduction of the general features of CoVs and describe diseases caused by different CoVs in humans and animals. This review will help understand the biology and potential risk of CoVs that exist in richness in wildlife such as bats.