id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-350479-3xusxrij Licastro, Danilo Isolation and Full-Length Genome Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Cases in Northern Italy 2020-05-18 .txt text/plain 551 43 61 title: Isolation and Full-Length Genome Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Cases in Northern Italy In December 2019, the novel coronavirus Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome SARS-CoV-2 emerged in the city of Wuhan in the Hubei province, People's Republic of China, as the etiologic agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has hence spread worldwide causing a global pandemic (1-3).…. Despite a high burden of COVID-19 in Italy, very little information is available to date from full-length high-quality sequences. The first sequences deposited in GISAID (EPI_ISL_410545 and EPI_ISL_410546) were collected in Rome from a Chinese tourist from Hubei province who got infected before visiting Italy, and another one (EPI_ ISL_412974) was from a test-positive Italian citizen returning from China. Sequence analysis showed a good coverage along the SARS-CoV-2 genome for all four isolates (Fig. 1) . A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China ./cache/cord-350479-3xusxrij.txt ./txt/cord-350479-3xusxrij.txt