COVID-19: a new challenge for human beings

作     者：Penghui Yang Xiliang Wang 

作者机构：The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General HospitalBeijingChina State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and BiosecurityBeijing Institute of Microbiology and EpidemiologyBeijingChina 

出 版 物：《Cellular & Molecular Immunology》 (中国免疫学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第17卷第5期

页      面：555-557页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：technology. Wuhan Middle 

摘      要：Since December 2019,just a month before the Chinese Spring Festival,multiple cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology appeared in Wuhan,Hubei Province,***,a novel coronavirus was identified in a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid sample from the Wuhan Seafood Market using metagenomic next-generation sequencing technology.1 On February 11,2020,the virus was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses(ICTV).SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh member of the coronavirus family that can infect humans after the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV)and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV).