Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 11, 2020

Emerging threats from zoonotic coronaviruses-from SARS and MERS to 2019-nCoV

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  • Lee and Hsueh review the emergence of the zoonotic coronaviruses SARS, MERS, and 2019-nCoV. They provide a high level review of reservoirs, mechanisms of infection, routes of transmission, clinical presentation and pandemic potential, with an emphasis on using this information to inform current 2019-nCoV containment.

Lee P-I and Hsueh P-R (Feb 4, 2020). Emerging threats from zoonotic coronaviruses-from SARS and MERS to 2019-nCoV, Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.02.001