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PERSPECTIVE: A Proposal To Name Four Coronaviruses of Limited Virulence "Common Cold Coronaviruses"
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PERSPECTIVE: A Proposal To Name Four Coronaviruses of Limited Virulence "Common Cold Coronaviruses"

Kenneth McIntosh, Stanley Perlman, Arnold Monto and Janet A Englund
The journal of infectious diseases, Vol.226(12), pp.2047-2049
09/02/2022
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiac355
PMCID: PMC9494316
PMID: 36052654
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https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac355View
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Abstract

We propose the term "common cold coronaviruses," or ccCoV, to describe the four human coronaviruses commonly associated with upper respiratory tract disease - coronaviruses 229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1. This will differentiate these previously described coronaviruses from those causing more severe disease in humans - including the viruses severe acute respiraotry syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and SARS-CoV-2.

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