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Review
. 2020 Jul;13(4):819-828.
doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13592. Epub 2020 May 3.

The Novel Coronavirus - Latest Findings

Harald Brüssow  1
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Review

The Novel Coronavirus - Latest Findings

Harald Brüssow. Microb Biotechnol. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

What was initially a lung infection epidemic in the metropolitan area of Wuhan followed by a now contained extension to mainland China has now spread to all continents as a major pandemic with current hotspots in Europe and the USA. This minireview is an update of an earlier report on this novel coronavirus infection (Brüssow, 2020, Microb Biotech 13, 607). I am now summarizing the research literature published between end of February to mid-April 2020.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author consults Nestlé, his former employer, on the scientific aspects of the COVID‐19 epidemic, but he does not consider this as a conflict of interest.

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