Molecular Diagnosis of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Causing an Outbreak of Pneumonia

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 549-555

  Chu, Daniel K W ^a   Pan, Yang ^b,c,d   Cheng, Samuel M S ^a   Hui, Kenrie P Y ^a   Krishnan, Pavithra ^a   Liu, Yingzhi ^a   Ng, Daisy Y M ^a   Wan, Carrie K C ^a   Yang, Peng ^b,c,d   Wang, Quanyi ^b,c   Peiris, Malik ^a   Poon, Leo L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; COVID-19; COVID-19 TESTING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SARS-COV-2;

EID: 85080137262     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa029     Document Type: Article

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