What do we know about the origin of COVID-19 three years later?
COVID-19
COVID-19 origin
Instituto de Virología de Wuhan
Origen COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Wuhan Institute of Virology
Journal
Revista clinica espanola
ISSN: 2254-8874
Titre abrégé: Rev Clin Esp (Barc)
Pays: Spain
ID NLM: 101632437
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2023
04 2023
Historique:
received:
14
02
2023
accepted:
17
02
2023
medline:
11
4
2023
pubmed:
19
3
2023
entrez:
18
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
More than three years have passed since the first case of a new coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2) in the city of Wuhan (Hubei, China). The Wuhan Institute of Virology was founded in that city in 1956 and the country's first biosafety level 4 laboratory opened within that center in 2015. The coincidence that the first cases of infection emerged in the city where the virology institute's headquarters is located, the failure to 100% identify the virus' RNA in any of the coronaviruses isolated in bats, and the lack of evidence on a possible intermediate animal host in the contagion's transmission make it so that at present, there are doubts about the real origin of SARS-CoV-2. This article will review two theories: SARS-CoV-2 as a virus of zoonotic origin or as a leak from the high-level biosafety laboratory in Wuhan.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36933695
pii: S2254-8874(23)00039-5
doi: 10.1016/j.rceng.2023.02.010
pmc: PMC10019034
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Viral
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
240-243Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U.
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