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SUBMITTER: Zheng Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zheng Zhiqiang Z Monteil Vanessa Marthe VM Maurer-Stroh Sebastian S Yew Chow Wenn CW Leong Carol C Mohd-Ismail Nur Khairiah NK Cheyyatraivendran Arularasu Suganya S Chow Vincent Tak Kwong VTK Lin Raymond Tzer Pin RTP Mirazimi Ali A Hong Wanjin W Tan Yee-Joo YJ
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20200701 28
BackgroundA novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which emerged at the end of 2019 and causes COVID-19, has resulted in worldwide human infections. While genetically distinct, SARS-CoV-1, the aetiological agent responsible for an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-2003, utilises the same host cell receptor as SARS-CoV-2 for entry: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Parts of the SARS-CoV-1 spike glycoprotein (S protein), which interacts with ACE2, appear conserved in SARS- ...[more]