Pattern of early human-to-human transmission of Wuhan 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), December 2019 to January 2020

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2020, Pages

  Riou, Julien ^a   Althaus, Christian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TO HUMAN TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; REVIEW; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SARS-RELATED CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL HEALTH; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; RISK; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

COVID-19; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RISK; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85078964053     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.4.2000058     Document Type: Review

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