Insights into the Recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Light of Past Human Coronavirus Outbreaks
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...Although COVID-19 is a new strain of coronaviruses, it is known to cause diseases ranging from cold to more severe illnesses such as SARS and MERS [5]....
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...Abbreviations SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; MERS: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; STROBE: Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology; PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Acknowledgements By Student Research Committee of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences....
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...There have been several viral diseases in the past 20 years including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza virus with the H1N1 subtype in 2009, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012, and Ebola virus in 2014 [3–5]....
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...There have been several viral diseases in the past 20 years including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza virus with the H1N1 subtype in 2009, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012, and Ebola virus in 2014 [3-5]....
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...The virus was provisionally named novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) [2] to differentiate it from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) [3] and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) [4], responsible for two previous outbreaks, in 2002 and 2012, respectively [5]....
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...Another study estimated the R0 to have a high average value of 2.5 [84] , which is consistent with other groups that reported values from 2 to 3 [83, [85] [86] [87] [88] ....
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...Another recent study confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 significantly clustered with a sequence from the bat SARS-like CoV that was isolated in 2015 [76] ....
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...Genetic analyses of viral samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus that has 88% sequence identity to two bat SARSr-CoV: 79% identity to SARS-CoV and only 50% identity to MERS-CoV [42] ....
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...The study showed that the genomes of these viruses differed by less than 0.1 percent (more than 99.98% of sequence identity), which indicates that the virus has only recently emerged in humans and has been detected rapidly after its emergence [42] ....
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...Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 infection rates have been rising in China and worldwide [42] ....
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...The Wuhan market is known to have a lot of exotic animals and exotic animal parts [42] ....
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...It is not well understood why outbreaks of CoV infections are mostly occurring in China....
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...In one study, several SARS-CoV RBD-specific monoclonal antibodies did not bind to SARS-CoV-2 S protein [43]....
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...A recent study published in Science showed that SARS-CoV-2 S protein has higher affinity to ACE2 than SARS-CoV S protein [43]....
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