Epidemiological identification of a novel pathogen in real time: analysis of the atypical pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, 2019–2020

Virological tests have now shown conclusively that a novel coronavirus is causing the 2019-2020 atypical pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. We demonstrate that non-virological descriptive characteristics could have determined that the outbreak is caused by a novel pathogen in advance of virological...

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Main Authors: Jung, S-M, Kinoshita, R, Thompson, RN, Linton, NM, Yang, Y, Akhmetzhanov, AR, Nishiura, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2020