The deadly coronaviruses: The 2003 SARS pandemic and the 2020 novel coronavirus epidemic in China

Y Yang, F Peng, R Wang, K Guan, T Jiang, G Xu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The 2019-nCoV is officially called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease is named COVID-19. This
viral epidemic in China has led to the deaths of over 1800 people, mostly elderly or those …

Emerging coronaviruses: genome structure, replication, and pathogenesis

Y Chen, Q Liu, D Guo - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus (2019‐nCoV), which is causing an outbreak of
unusual viral pneumonia in patients in Wuhan, a central city in China, is another warning of …

Structure and drug binding of the SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein transmembrane domain in lipid bilayers

VS Mandala, MJ McKay, AA Shcherbakov… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
An essential protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the envelope protein E, forms a
homopentameric cation channel that is important for virus pathogenicity. Here we report a …

[PDF][PDF] Properties of coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2

YA Malik - The Malaysian journal of pathology, 2020 - mjpath.org.my
Zoonotic coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s. Since then pathogenic human
coronaviruses were identified beginning with the discovery of SARS-CoV in 2002. With the …

Coronavirus infections in children including COVID-19: an overview of the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prevention options in children

P Zimmermann, N Curtis - The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of enveloped, single-stranded, zoonotic RNA
viruses. Four CoVs commonly circulate among humans: HCoV2-229E,-HKU1,-NL63 and …

The COVID-19 pandemic face mask waste: a blooming threat to the marine environment

S Dharmaraj, V Ashokkumar, S Hariharan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, the COVID-19 disease spread has emerged as a worldwide pandemic and cause
severe threats to humanity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) releases guidelines to …

The molecular virology of coronaviruses

E Hartenian, D Nandakumar, A Lari, M Ly… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Few human pathogens have been the focus of as much concentrated worldwide attention as
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19. Its …

Coronavirus envelope protein: current knowledge

D Schoeman, BC Fielding - Virology journal, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Coronaviruses (CoVs) primarily cause enzootic infections in birds and
mammals but, in the last few decades, have shown to be capable of infecting humans as …

The human coronavirus disease COVID-19: its origin, characteristics, and insights into potential drugs and its mechanisms

L Alanagreh, F Alzoughool, M Atoum - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The emerging coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world, affecting more than
200 countries and territories. Genomic analysis suggests that the COVID-19 virus originated …

COVID-19: coronavirus vaccine development updates

J Zhao, S Zhao, J Ou, J Zhang, W Lan, W Guan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a newly emerged coronavirus, and has been pandemic since …