A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 382; no. 8; pp. 727 - 733
• Main Authors: Zhu, Na, Zhang, Dingyu, Wang, Wenling, Li, Xingwang, Yang, Bo, Song, Jingdong, Zhao, Xiang, Huang, Baoying, Shi, Weifeng, Lu, Roujian, Niu, Peihua, Zhan, Faxian, Ma, Xuejun, Wang, Dayan, Xu, Wenbo, Wu, Guizhen, Gao, George F, Tan, Wenjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 20.02.2020
• Series: Brief Report
• Subjects: Adult; Betacoronavirus - genetics; Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification; Betacoronavirus - ultrastructure; Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid - virology; Cell culture; Cells, Cultured; China; Cloning; Coronaviridae; Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging; Coronavirus Infections - pathology; Coronavirus Infections - virology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease; Epidemics; Epithelial cells; Epithelial Cells - pathology; Epithelial Cells - virology; Female; Fever; Genome, Viral; Genomes; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Infectious diseases; Lavage; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Lung - pathology; Lung - virology; Male; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Middle Aged; Original; Pathogens; Patients; Phylogeny; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging; Pneumonia, Viral - pathology; Pneumonia, Viral - virology; Radiography, Thoracic; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory System - pathology; Respiratory System - virology; Sarbecovirus; SARS-CoV-2; Seafood; Transmission electron microscopy; Viruses; China; Middle East
• ISSN: 0028-4793; 1533-4406; 1533-4406
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2001017

The authors report the emergence and isolation of a previously unknown betacoronavirus, the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans, in Wuhan, China. Findings in three patients are described.