Virologica Sinica
14 February 2020
The First Disease X is Caused by a Highly Transmissible Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Shibo Jiang 1,2 , Zheng-Li Shi
1.Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/ CAMS), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
2.New York Blood Center, The Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA
3.CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
10.1007/s12250-020-00206-5
The ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency. The causative pathogen of COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), hits the humankind so sudden and brings tremendous challenges to the world. In combating against the COVID-19 pandemic, Virologica Sinica delicates this focused issue to timely present the latest scientific progress. Original reports on virus characterization, clinical features, inflammatory responses, infection models, detection methods, drugs and treatments, etc. are collectively included in the issue. The cover depicts the SARS-CoV-2 virus particle, surrounded by human blood cells.
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