SARS-CoV Virus
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A SARS-CoV Virus is an Betacoronavirus virus that ...
- AKA: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
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- See: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Viral Envelope, RNA Virus, Epithelium, Angiotensin II Receptor.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus Retrieved:2020-3-14.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is the strain of virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). It is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which infects the epithelial cells within the lungs. The virus enters the host cell by binding to the ACE2 receptor. It infects humans, bats, and palm civets. On April 16, 2003, following the outbreak of SARS in Asia and secondary cases elsewhere in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Canada identified the SARS-CoV genome in April 2003. Scientists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands demonstrated that the SARS coronavirus fulfilled Koch's postulates thereby confirming it as the causative agent. In the experiments, macaques infected with the virus developed the same symptoms as human SARS victims.
A pandemic due to novel coronavirus disease in 2019 showed many similarities with the SARS outbreak, and the viral agent was identified as yet another strain of the SARS-related coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Although the two are strains of the same virus, SARS-CoV-2 is not a direct descendant of SARS-CoV, and made the jump into humans separately.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is the strain of virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). It is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which infects the epithelial cells within the lungs. The virus enters the host cell by binding to the ACE2 receptor. It infects humans, bats, and palm civets. On April 16, 2003, following the outbreak of SARS in Asia and secondary cases elsewhere in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Canada identified the SARS-CoV genome in April 2003. Scientists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands demonstrated that the SARS coronavirus fulfilled Koch's postulates thereby confirming it as the causative agent. In the experiments, macaques infected with the virus developed the same symptoms as human SARS victims.