id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-263357-krvei97r Holmes, Kathryn V. The New Age of Virus Discovery: Genomic Analysis of a Novel Human Betacoronavirus Isolated from a Fatal Case of Pneumonia 2013-01-08 .txt text/plain 2076 83 43 Sequencing and bioinformatic analysis of the viral genomic RNA showed that it is a novel virus not previously detected in any other species and that its closest relatives are two Asian bat coronaviruses. demonstrated how state-of-the-art sequencing technology and bioinformatic analysis can quickly provide critical insight into the viral genome sequence, phylogeny, replication strategy, and potential drug and vaccine targets and generate tools to evaluate the possible epidemic risk associated with this novel human virus. In June 2012, a novel coronavirus, tentatively named HCoV-EMC (for Erasmus Medical Center where the initial genome sequence was done), was isolated in a monkey kidney cell line from a sputum specimen from a 60-year-old man from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who died of acute severe pneumonia and renal failure. The genomic analysis suggests that HCoV-EMC may be a zoonotic virus that spilled over to infect the 9 laboratory confirmed patients, either directly or indirectly, from an unknown reservoir, possibly a bat. ./cache/cord-263357-krvei97r.txt ./txt/cord-263357-krvei97r.txt