COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University Bentley, WA, Australia Honorary Professor School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences University of Queensland St Lucia, Qld, Australia Email: J.Mackenzie@curtin.edu.au.
² School of Medicine Faculty of Health and  Medical Sciences University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia.

Editorial

John S Mackenzie et al. Microbiol Aust. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 17:MA20013.

doi: 10.1071/MA20013. Online ahead of print.

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University Bentley, WA, Australia Honorary Professor School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences University of Queensland St Lucia, Qld, Australia Email: J.Mackenzie@curtin.edu.au.
² School of Medicine Faculty of Health and  Medical Sciences University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia.

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