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. 2020 May;80(5):578-606.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.02.020. Epub 2020 Feb 28.

Novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19): The first two patients in the UK with person to person transmission

Patrick J Lillie  1 , Anda Samson  1 , Ang Li  2 , Kate Adams  1 , Richard Capstick  2 , Gavin D Barlow  3 , Nicholas Easom  1 , Eve Hamilton  2 , Peter J Moss  1 , Adam Evans  2 , Monica Ivan  1 , Phe Incident Team  4 , Yusri Taha  2 , Christopher J A Duncan  5 , Matthias L Schmid  6 , The Airborne Hcid Network  7
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Novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19): The first two patients in the UK with person to person transmission

Patrick J Lillie et al. J Infect. 2020 May.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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  • The index case of SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland.
    Hill KJ, Russell CD, Clifford S, Templeton K, Mackintosh CL, Koch O, Sutherland RK. Hill KJ, et al. J Infect. 2020 Jul;81(1):147-178. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.022. Epub 2020 Mar 21. J Infect. 2020. PMID: 32205138 Free PMC article.

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