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Coronavirus research highlights

A novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness that originated in Wuhan, China, and which has spread to several other countries around the world.  Recent content from BMC and SpringerOpen journals relevant to coronavirus research, as well as additional commentary on this topic, is included below. 

BMC, as part of Springer Nature, encourages early sharing of research submitted to all our journals through preprints, and our In Review preprint service is available for many journals. We strongly urge authors submitting articles related to this emergency to BMC journals to share underlying interim and final research datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible, including with public health and research communities and the WHO.

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  1. In December 2019, a new type viral pneumonia cases occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province; and then named “2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 January 2020. For it is a ...

    Authors: Ying-Hui Jin, Lin Cai, Zhen-Shun Cheng, Hong Cheng, Tong Deng, Yi-Pin Fan, Cheng Fang, Di Huang, Lu-Qi Huang, Qiao Huang, Yong Han, Bo Hu, Fen Hu, Bing-Hui Li, Yi-Rong Li, Ke Liang…
    Citation: Military Medical Research 2020 7:4
    Content type: Position article and guideline Published on:

    The Letter to the editor to this article has been published in Military Medical Research 2021 8:10

    The Position article and Guidelines to this article has been published in Military Medical Research 2020 7:41

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Military Medical Research 2020 7:16

  2. Recurring outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging zoonoses, such as Ebola virus disease, avian influenza, and Nipah virus, serve as a reminder that the health of humans, animals, and the environment are intercon...

    Authors: Terra R. Kelly, Catherine Machalaba, William B. Karesh, Paulina Zielinska Crook, Kirsten Gilardi, Julius Nziza, Marcela M. Uhart, Erika Alandia Robles, Karen Saylors, Damien O. Joly, Corina Monagin, Prime Mulembakani Mangombo, Placide Mbala Kingebeni, Rudovick Kazwala, David Wolking, Woutrina Smith…
    Citation: One Health Outlook 2020 2:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. It has been 8 years since the first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was reported in Saudi Arabia and the disease is still being reported in 27 countries; however, there is no in...

    Authors: Maryam Salamatbakhsh, Kazhal Mobaraki, Sara Sadeghimohammadi and Jamal Ahmadzadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1523
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Mortality is high among patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. We aimed to determine hospital mortality and the factors associated with it in a cohort of MERS-CoV pati...

    Authors: Abdulrahman Mohammed G. Habib, Mohamed Abd Elghafour Ali, Baha R. Zouaoui, Mustafa Ahmed H. Taha, Bassem Sahsah Mohammed and Nazmus Saquib
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:870
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. We sought to assess reporting in China’s Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology (PUE) passive surveillance system for emerging respiratory infections and to identify ways to improve the PUE surveillance system’s detect...

    Authors: Nijuan Xiang, Ying Song, Yu Wang, Jiabing Wu, Alexander J. Millman, Carolyn M. Greene, Zhentao Ding, Jie Sun, Wei Yang, Guoxia Guo, Ruirui Wang, Ping Guo, Zhixing Ren, Lei Gong, Pengpeng Xu, Suizan Zhou…
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:770
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), a member of the family Coronaviridae, causes lethal watery diarrhea in piglets. Previous studies have revealed that the coronaviruses develop various strategies to evad...

    Authors: Yanan Wang, Aoying Sun, Yu Sun, Sijia Zhang, Tian Xia, Tiantian Guo, Zhenye Hao, Li Sun, Yanping Jiang, Xinyuan Qiao, Wen Cui, Lijie Tang, Yigang Xu, Yijing Li and Li Wang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2019 16:97
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Coronaviruses (CoVs) primarily cause enzootic infections in birds and mammals but, in the last few decades, have shown to be capable of infecting humans as well. The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndro...

    Authors: Dewald Schoeman and Burtram C. Fielding
    Citation: Virology Journal 2019 16:69
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is considered to be responsible for a new viral epidemic and an emergent threat to global health security. This study describes the current epidemiologic...

    Authors: Kazhal Mobaraki and Jamal Ahmadzadeh
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:351
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. International and national travelling has made the rapid spread of infectious diseases possible. Little information is available on the role of major traffic hubs, such as airports, in the transmission of resp...

    Authors: Niina Ikonen, Carita Savolainen-Kopra, Joanne E. Enstone, Ilpo Kulmala, Pertti Pasanen, Anniina Salmela, Satu Salo, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam and Petri Ruutu
    Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:437
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Since Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) infection was first reported in 2012, many studies have analysed its transmissibility and severity. However, the methodology and results of these studies have vari...

    Authors: Ji-Eun Park, Soyoung Jung, Aeran Kim and Ji-Eun Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:574
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Singapore remains vulnerable to worldwide epidemics due to high air traffic with other countries This study aims to measure the public’s awareness of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Avian Influ...

    Authors: Yan’an Hou, Yi-roe Tan, Wei Yen Lim, Vernon Lee, Linda Wei Lin Tan, Mark I-Cheng Chen and Peiling Yap
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:436
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Bats are natural reservoirs for several highly pathogenic and novel viruses including coronaviruses (CoVs) (mainly Alphacoronavirus and Betacoronavirus). Lyle’s flying fox (Pteropus lylei)‘s roosts and foraging s...

    Authors: Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, Prateep Duengkae, Aingorn Chaiyes, Thongchai Kaewpom, Apaporn Rodpan, Sangchai Yingsakmongkon, Sininat Petcharat, Patcharakiti Phengsakul, Pattarapol Maneeorn and Thiravat Hemachudha
    Citation: Virology Journal 2018 15:38
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Media and World Health Organization (WHO) attention on Zika virus transmission at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa diverted the attention of global public health auth...

    Authors: Alimuddin Zumla, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Matthew Cotten and Esam I. Azhar
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:132
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  16. An outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), comprising 185 cases linked to healthcare facilities, occurred in the Republic of Korea from May to July 2015. Owing to the nosocomial nature of the ...

    Authors: Kenji Mizumoto, Akira Endo, Gerardo Chowell, Yuichiro Miyamatsu, Masaya Saitoh and Hiroshi Nishiura
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:228
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. The global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic has clearly shown the importance of considering the long-range transportation networks in the understanding of emerging diseases outbr...

    Authors: Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy and Alessandro Vespignani
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2007 5:34
    Content type: Research article Published on: