Virology 2022 May 30;570:123-133. Epub 2022 Mar 30.
Department of Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA; Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA; Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA; Global Virus Network, Baltimore MD, 21201, USA. Electronic address:
The current outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 poses unparalleled challenges to global public health. SARS-CoV-2 is a Betacoronavirus, one of four genera belonging to the Coronaviridae subfamily Orthocoronavirinae. Coronaviridae, in turn, are members of the order Nidovirales, a group of enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses. Read More