Editorial
Another Decade, Another Coronavirus
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.382(8), pp.760-762
02/20/2020
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2001126
PMID: 31978944
Abstract
For the third time in as many decades, a zoonotic coronavirus has crossed species to infect human populations. This virus, provisionally called 2019-nCoV, was first identified in Wuhan, China, in persons exposed to a seafood or wet market. The rapid response of the Chinese public health, clinical, and scientific communities facilitated recognition of the clinical disease and initial understanding of the epidemiology of the infection. First reports indicated that human-to-human transmission was limited or nonexistent, but we now know that such transmission occurs, although to what extent remains unknown. Like outbreaks caused by two other pathogenic human respiratory coronaviruses (severe . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Another Decade, Another Coronavirus
- Creators
- Stanley Perlman - University of Iowa, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Publication Details
- The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.382(8), pp.760-762
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJMe2001126
- PMID
- 31978944
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/20/2020
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Infectious Disease (Pediatrics)
- Record Identifier
- 9983782099202771
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