The species Severe acute respiratory syndromerelated coronavirus: classifying 2019 - nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV- 2
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Gorbalenya A E, Baker S C, Baric R S, de Groot R J, Drosten C, Gulyaeva A A, Haagmans B L, Lauber C, Leontovich A M, Neuman B W, Penzar D, Perlman S, Poon L L M, Samborskiy D V, Sidorov I A, Sola I, Ziebuhr J, plazi (2020). The species Severe acute respiratory syndromerelated coronavirus: classifying 2019 - nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV- 2. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0695-z accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-04.Description
This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Gorbalenya, Alexander E., Baker, Susan C., Baric, Ralph S., de Groot, Raoul J., Drosten, Christian, Gulyaeva, Anastasia A., Haagmans, Bart L., Lauber, Chris, Leontovich, Andrey M., Neuman, Benjamin W., Penzar, Dmitry, Perlman, Stanley, Poon, Leo L. M., Samborskiy, Dmitry V., Sidorov, Igor A., Sola, Isabel, Ziebuhr, John (2020): The species Severe acute respiratory syndromerelated coronavirus: classifying 2019 - nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV- 2. Nature Microbiology 5: 536-544, DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0695-z
The present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the third documented spillover of an animal coronavirus to humans in only two decades that has resulted in a major epidemic. The Coronaviridae Study Group (CSG) of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for developing the classification of viruses and taxon nomenclature of the family Coronaviridae, has assessed the placement of the human
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Alexander E. Gorbalenyaoriginator
Susan C. Baker
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Ralph S. Baric
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Raoul J. de Groot
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Christian Drosten
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Anastasia A. Gulyaeva
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Bart L. Haagmans
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Chris Lauber
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Andrey M. Leontovich
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Benjamin W. Neuman
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Dmitry Penzar
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Stanley Perlman
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Leo L. M. Poon
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Dmitry V. Samborskiy
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Igor A. Sidorov
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Isabel Sola
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John Ziebuhr
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