TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19
T2 - A novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: What we know and what we don't
AU - MacKenzie, John S.
AU - Smith, David W.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - At the end of December, 2019, a new disease of unknown aetiology appeared in Wuhan, China. It was quickly identified as anovelbetacoronavirus, and related toSARS-CoVand a number of other bat-borne SARS-like coronaviruses. The virus rapidly spread to all provinces in China, as well as a number of countries overseas, and was declared a Public HealthEmergencyof InternationalConcernby theDirectorGeneral of the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. This paper describes the evolution of the outbreak, and the known properties of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical disease it causes, COVID-19, and comments on some of the important gaps in our knowledge of the virus and the disease it causes. The virus is the third zoonotic coronavirus, after SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but appears to be the only one with pandemic potential.
AB - At the end of December, 2019, a new disease of unknown aetiology appeared in Wuhan, China. It was quickly identified as anovelbetacoronavirus, and related toSARS-CoVand a number of other bat-borne SARS-like coronaviruses. The virus rapidly spread to all provinces in China, as well as a number of countries overseas, and was declared a Public HealthEmergencyof InternationalConcernby theDirectorGeneral of the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. This paper describes the evolution of the outbreak, and the known properties of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical disease it causes, COVID-19, and comments on some of the important gaps in our knowledge of the virus and the disease it causes. The virus is the third zoonotic coronavirus, after SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but appears to be the only one with pandemic potential.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082924443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1071/MA20013
DO - 10.1071/MA20013
M3 - Article
C2 - 32226946
AN - SCOPUS:85082924443
SN - 1324-4272
VL - 41
SP - 45
EP - 50
JO - Microbiology Australia
JF - Microbiology Australia
IS - 1
ER -
