Over the past decade, infections caused by coronaviruses have resulted in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome. Now, a new coronavirus is causing worldwide concern, and is exercising the research community, as this small selection of very recently published articles illustrates.
Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding
Lu R, Zhao X, Li J et al. Lancet 2020 Jan 30. pii: S0140-6736(20)30251-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30251-8 (Epub ahead of print).
In late December 2019, patients presenting with viral pneumonia due to an unidentified microbial agent were reported in Wuhan, PR China. A novel coronavirus was subsequently identified as the causative pathogen, provisionally named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). As of 26 January 2020, more than 2000 cases of 2019-nCoV infection have been confirmed, most of which involved people living in or visiting Wuhan, and human-to-human transmission has been confirmed.
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