A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10223, 2020, Pages 514-523

  Chan, Jasper Fuk Woo ^a,b   Yuan, Shuofeng ^a   Kok, Kin Hang ^a   To, Kelvin Kai Wang ^a,b   Chu, Hin ^a   Yang, Jin ^b   Xing, Fanfan ^b   Liu, Jieling ^b   Yip, Cyril Chik Yan ^a   Poon, Rosana Wing Shan ^a   Tsoi, Hoi Wah ^a   Lo, Simon Kam Fai ^b   Chan, Kwok Hung ^a   Poon, Vincent Kwok Man ^a   Chan, Wan Mui ^a   Ip, Jonathan Daniel ^a   Cai, Jian Piao ^a   Cheng, Vincent Chi Chung ^a   Chen, Honglin ^a,b   Hui, Christopher Kim Ming ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^b   more..

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SHENZHEN HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN; COVID-19; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANGER SEQUENCING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; THROAT CULTURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FAMILY HEALTH; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85078241697     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30154-9     Document Type: Article

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