摘要
By the end of 2019,the World Health Organization(WHO)was informed about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan,China.Some patients were linked to a seafood market,suggesting animal-to-human transmission,but,soon,human-tohuman transmission was confirmed.The pathogen was promptly identified as a novel coronavirus belonging to lineage B betacoronaviruses that also include severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV),which caused a pandemic in China in 2002/2003,and bat SARS-like coronaviruses.
作者简介
Correspondence:Shibo Jiang(shibojiang@fudan.edu.cn)。
