A new virulent human coronavirus: How much does tissue culture tropism tell us?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 207, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1630-1632

  McIntosh, Kenneth ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bats; coronavirus; Middle East; mortality; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; VIRAL TROPISM;

EID: 84877275562     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit125     Document Type: Note

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