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: Received: 18 February 2020 / Approved: 19 February 2020 / Online: 19 February 2020 (11:58:13 CET)
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Zhou, D.; Zhang, P.; Bao, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, N. Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints2020, 2020020283. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1
Zhou, D.; Zhang, P.; Bao, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, N. Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints 2020, 2020020283. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1
Zhou, D.; Zhang, P.; Bao, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, N. Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints2020, 2020020283. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1
APA Style
Zhou, D., Zhang, P., Bao, C., Zhang, Y., & Zhu, N. (2020). Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Zhou, D., Youzhi Zhang and Ning Zhu. 2020 "Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1
Abstract
The latest emergence of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had caused an outbreak of respiratory virus infections in Wuhan, China, and other countries so that the world health organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 epidemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 31, 2020. At present, it is the fact that we have identified the bats as the host, the route of respiratory droplets, contact, and aerosol can accelerate the transmission from person to person. However, it is not well known about the intermediator and other approaches. Identifying and characterizing the origin and host(s) of COVID-19 can help us to evaluate the potential risk of COVID-19 for transmission among humans or cross-species.
Keywords
Etiology; Epidemiology; COVID-19; Wuhan
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Virology
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