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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Claverie JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7354589 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viruses 20200615 6
As more cases of COVID-19 are studied and treated worldwide, it had become apparent that the lethal and most severe cases of pneumonia are due to an out-of-control inflammatory response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. I explored the putative causes of this specific feature through a detailed genomic comparison with the closest SARS-CoV-2 relatives isolated from bats, as well as previous coronavirus strains responsible for the previous epidemics (SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV). The high variability region of th ...[more]