Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: The species and its viruses – a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group

@article{Gorbalenya2020SevereAR,
  title={Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: The species and its viruses – a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group},
  author={Alexander E. Gorbalenya and Susan C. Baker and Ralph S. Baric and Raoul J. de Groot and Christian Drosten and Anastasia A. Gulyaeva and Bart L. Haagmans and Chris Lauber and Andrey M. Leontovich and Benjamin W. Neuman and Dmitry D. Penzar and Stanley Perlman and Leo L. M. Poon and Dmitry V. Samborskiy and Igor A. Sidorov and Isabel Sola and John Ziebuhr},
  journal={bioRxiv},
  year={2020}
}
The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic. Here, the Coronavirus Study Group (CSG) of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for developing the official classification of viruses and taxa naming (taxonomy) of the Coronaviridae family, assessed the novelty of the human pathogen tentatively named… 
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