A distinct name is needed for the new coronavirus

Lancet. 2020 Mar 21;395(10228):949. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30419-0. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

Authors

Shibo Jiang¹, Zhengli Shi², Yuelong Shu³, Jingdong Song⁴, George F Gao⁴, Wenjie Tan⁴, Deyin Guo⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
³ School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
⁴ China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
⁵ School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. Electronic address: guodeyin@mail.sysu.edu.cn.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / classification*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections* / virology
Humans
Phylogeny
Pneumonia, Viral* / virology
SARS-CoV-2
Terminology as Topic*