HIV-1 did not contribute to the 2019-nCoV genome

Chuan Xiao¹, Xiaojun Li², Shuying Liu³, Yongming Sang⁴, Shou-Jiang Gao⁵, Feng Gao^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
³ NA BioTech Corp, M2D2 Incubator, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁶ National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China.

Chuan Xiao et al. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020.

. 2020 Feb 14;9(1):378-381.

doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1727299. eCollection 2020.

Chuan Xiao¹, Xiaojun Li², Shuying Liu³, Yongming Sang⁴, Shou-Jiang Gao⁵, Feng Gao^{2

6}

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
³ NA BioTech Corp, M2D2 Incubator, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁶ National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China.

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