Three Emerging Coronaviruses in Two Decades: The Story of SARS, MERS, and Now COVID-19

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 420-421

  Guarner, Jeannette ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2019 nCoV; Coronavirus; COVID 19; MERS CoV; SARS CoV; SARS CoV 2

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GOVERNMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; UNITED STATES; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; GENETICS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COVID-19; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 85080120084     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaa029     Document Type: Editorial

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