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A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019

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Zhu, Na, Zhang, Dingyu, Wang, Wenling, Li, Xingwang, Yang, Bo, Song, Jingdong, Zhao, Xiang, Huang, Baoying +10 more·2020·New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

In December 2019, a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause was linked to a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China. A previously unknown betacoronavirus was discovered through the use of unbiased sequencing in samples from patients with pneumonia. Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily. Different from both MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, 2019-nCoV is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans. Enhanced surveillance and further investigation are ongoing. (Funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the National Major Project for Control and Prevention of Infectious Disease in China.).

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  • Compared to the general older population, people with dementia have increased rates of cerebrovascular disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, skin ulcers, anxiety and depression, pneumonia, incontinence, and electrolyte disturbance.

    “Compared to the general older population, people with dementia have increased rates of cerebrovascular disease,243, 244, 245, 246 stroke,247 Parkinson's disease,243, 245 diabetes,245, 247 skin ulcers, anxiety and depression,243, 245 pneumonia, incontinence, and electrolyte disturbance.245”

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  • Because CoV-2 can infect cells in the lower respiratory tract, the finding that human olfactory epithelium sustentacular cells express ACE2 at levels similar to the non-nasal respiratory tract is consistent with the possibility that these cells express ACE2 at a level permissive for direct infection.

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Zhu, N., Zhang, D., Wang, W., Li, X., Yang, B., Song, J., Zhao, X., Huang, B., Shi, W., Lu, R., Niu, P., Zhan, F., Ma, X., Wang, D., Xu, W., Wu, G., Gao, G. F., & Tan, W.
Affiliations
Capital Medical University (CN)
Corresponding author
Tan, Wenjie
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2020-02-20
Volume
382
Issue
8
Pages
727-733
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W3001897055
Cited by
28,244
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 434 · 2025: 839 · 2024: 1681 · 2023: 2837 · 2022: 4957 · 2021: 7830 · 2020: 9609 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI
829.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Virus Infections Studies
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Sarbecovirus, human airway epithelial cells, virus isolation, Wuhan, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV
MeSH terms
Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adult, Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid, Cells, Cultured, China, Epithelial Cells, Female, Humans, Lung, Male, Middle Aged, Phylogeny, Pneumonia, Viral, Respiratory System, Radiography, Thoracic, Genome, Viral, Coronavirus Infections, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission

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