• DOI:10.1101/2020.02.07.937862
Corpus ID: 214317727

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={A. Gorbalenya and S. Baker and R. Baric and R. D. de Groot and C. Drosten and A. Gulyaeva and B. Haagmans and C. Lauber and A. M. Leontovich and B. Neuman and Dmitry D. Penzar and S. Perlman and L. Poon and Dmitry V. Samborskiy and I. Sidorov and I. Sola and J. Ziebuhr},
  journal={bioRxiv},
  year={2020}
}

• A. Gorbalenya, S. Baker, +14 authors J. Ziebuhr
• Published 2020
• Medicine, Biology
• bioRxiv

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… Expand

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