Thursday, June 11, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenicity

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("PNAS") published an article entitled "Genomic determinants of pathogenicity in SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses", by Ayal B. Gussow et al., on June 10, 2020.  The article explores
crucial genomic features that are unique to SARS-CoV-2 and two other deadly coronaviruses, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV [and that] correlate with the high fatality rate of these coronaviruses...
This short article is well worth reading.