Discovery of a subgenotype of human coronavirus NL63 associated with severe lower respiratory tract infection in China, 2018

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 246-255

  Wang, Yanqun ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Liu, Wenkuan ^a   Gan, Mian ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Wang, Jin ^a   Zhang, Zhaoyong ^a   Zhu, Airu ^a   Li, Fang ^a   Sun, Jing ^a   Zhang, Guoxian ^a   Zhuang, Zhen ^a   Luo, Jiaying ^a   Chen, Dehui ^a   Qiu, Shuyan ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Xu, Duo ^a   Mok, Chris Ka Pun ^a,c   Zhang, Fuchun ^b   Zhao, Jingxian ^a   Zhou, Rong ^a   Zhao, Jincun ^a,b   more..

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital   (China)

^c HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

human coronavirus NL63; new subgenotype; phylogenetic analysis; pneumonia; viral entry; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CORONAVIRUS NL63; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRIC PATIENT; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS LOAD; WHEEZING; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CORONAVIRUS NL63, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85078691103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1717999     Document Type: Article

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