Epidemiology characteristics of human coronaviruses in patients with respiratory infection symptoms and phylogenetic analysis of HCoV-OC43 during 2010-2015 in Guangzhou.

Human coronavirus (HCoV) is one of the most common causes of respiratory tract infection throughout the world. To investigate the epidemiological and genetic variation of HCoV in Guangzhou, south China, we collected totally 13048 throat and nasal swab specimens from adults and children with fever an...

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Main Authors: Su-Fen Zhang, Jiu-Ling Tuo, Xu-Bin Huang, Xun Zhu, Ding-Mei Zhang, Kai Zhou, Lei Yuan, Hong-Jiao Luo, Bo-Jian Zheng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Meng-Feng Li, Kai-Yuan Cao, Lin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5788356?pdf=render