Outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China: The mystery and the miracle

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
³ Cepheid, Danaher Diagnostic Platform, Shanghai, China.

Hongzhou Lu et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;92(4):401-402.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.25678. Epub 2020 Feb 12.

¹ Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
³ Cepheid, Danaher Diagnostic Platform, Shanghai, China.

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Initiation of a new infection control system for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Chen X, Tian J, Li G, Li G. Chen X, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Apr;20(4):397-398. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30110-9. Epub 2020 Feb 19. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020. PMID: 32085850 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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