[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: The first documented coronavirus pandemic in history

YC Liu, RL Kuo, SR Shih - Biomedical journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel human coronavirus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented
pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and …

Unveiling the origin and transmission of 2019-nCoV

Y Xu - Trends in microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
A novel coronavirus has caused thousands of human infections in China since December
2019, raising a global public health concern. Recent studies (Huang et al., Chan et al., and …

Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

L Van Dorp, M Acman, D Richard, LP Shaw… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 is a SARS-like coronavirus of likely zoonotic origin first identified in December
2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. The virus has since spread globally …

Molecular architecture of early dissemination and massive second wave of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a major metropolitan area

SW Long, RJ Olsen, PA Christensen, DW Bernard… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
We sequenced the genomes of 5,085 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) strains causing two coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease waves in …

[PDF][PDF] Bat origin of a new human coronavirus: there and back again

X Li, Y Song, G Wong, J Cui - Sci China Life Sci, 2020 - researchgate.net
A novel coronavirus reported to cause pneumonia in 41 people during December 2019 in
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, was identified and designated as the 2019 …

The emergence and spread of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants

H Yi, J Wang, J Wang, Y Lu, Y Zhang, R Peng… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) began to spread in
late 2019, laboratories around the world have widely used whole genome sequencing …

Molecular epidemiology surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: mutations and genetic diversity one year after emerging

A Flores-Alanis, A Cruz-Rangel, F Rodríguez-Gómez… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, the first cases of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were identified in the city of Wuhan, China. Since then, it has …

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak: think the unthinkable and be prepared to face the challenge

G Lippi, M Plebani - Diagnosis, 2020 - degruyter.com
A new and threatening viral outbreak, originating from the Chinese city of Wuhan, has been
declared. According to the most recent updates of the World Health Organization (WHO), this …

SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and 2019-nCoV viruses: an overview of origin, evolution, and genetic variations

S Krishnamoorthy, B Swain, RS Verma, SS Gunthe - VirusDisease, 2020 - Springer
Coronaviruses are single stranded RNA viruses usually present in bats (reservoir hosts),
and are generally lethal, highly transmissible, and pathogenic viruses causing sever …

Evidence of recombination in coronaviruses implicating pangolin origins of nCoV-2019

MC Wong, SJ Javornik Cregeen, NJ Ajami… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
SUMMARY A novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) was the cause of an outbreak of respiratory
illness detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December of 2019. Genomic analyses …