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SUBMITTER: Goh GK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3828228 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS currents 20131113
A novel coronavirus, MERS-CoV (NCoV, HCoV-EMC/2012), originating from the Middle-East, has been discovered. Incoming data reveal that the virus is highly virulent to humans. A model that categorizes coronaviuses according to the hardness of their shells was developed before the discovery of MERS-CoV. Using protein intrinsic disorder prediction, coronaviruses were categorized into three groups that can be linked to the levels of oral-fecal and respiratory transmission regardless of genetic proxim ...[more]