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SUBMITTER: Xian Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7278644 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B 20200608 7
Coronaviruses (CoVs), a family of enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses, are characterized by club-like spikes that project from their surface, unusually large RNA genome, and unique replication capability. CoVs are known to cause various potentially lethal human respiratory infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the very recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Unfortunately, neither drug nor vaccine has yet ...[more]