Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection
SUMMARY Before the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, only 12 other animal or human coronaviruses were known. The discovery of this virus was soon followed by the discovery of the civet and bat SARS-CoV and the human coronaviruses NL63 and HKU1. Surveillance of coronaviruses …