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. 2021 Mar;93(3):1204-1206.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26478. Epub 2020 Dec 30.

Questions concerning the proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

Murat Seyran  1   2 , Damiano Pizzol  3 , Parise Adadi  4 , Tarek M A El-Aziz  5   6 , Sk Sarif Hassan  7 , Antonio Soares  5 , Ramesh Kandimalla  8   9 , Kenneth Lundstrom  10 , Murtaza Tambuwala  11 , Alaa A A Aljabali  12 , Amos Lal  13 , Gajendra K Azad  14 , Pabitra P Choudhury  15 , Vladimir N Uversky  16 , Samendra P Sherchan  17 , Bruce D Uhal  18 , Nima Rezaei  19   20 , Adam M Brufsky  21
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Questions concerning the proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

Murat Seyran et al. J Med Virol. 2021 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: coronavirus; fusion protein; genetic variability; mutation.

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