SARS-CoV
noun
: the coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus of the genus Betacoronavirus) that is the causative agent of SARS
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Because previous coronavirus outbreaks associated with the SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV viruses resulted from zoonotic transfers, researchers theorized that SARS-CoV-2 likewise entered the human population via a zoonotic transmission.
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Dave Wessner, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Studies on the closely related SARS-CoV have implicated viral proteins in the possible degradation of p53 and pRB, which are critical oncosuppressors.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
That was caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV, which is closely related to the one that causes COVID-19.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
What’s more, patients who were infected with the SARS-CoV coronavirus — a close relative to the pandemic virus that was responsible for the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome — have shown signs of T-cell immunity 17 years later.
—Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
Initially assumed to transmit only from people who were actively sick—as its predecessor SARS-CoV did—the new coronavirus turned out to be a silent spreader, also spewing from the airways of people who were feeling just fine.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
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Dave Wessner, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Studies on the closely related SARS-CoV have implicated viral proteins in the possible degradation of p53 and pRB, which are critical oncosuppressors.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
That was caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV, which is closely related to the one that causes COVID-19.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
What’s more, patients who were infected with the SARS-CoV coronavirus — a close relative to the pandemic virus that was responsible for the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome — have shown signs of T-cell immunity 17 years later.
—Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
Initially assumed to transmit only from people who were actively sick—as its predecessor SARS-CoV did—the new coronavirus turned out to be a silent spreader, also spewing from the airways of people who were feeling just fine.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
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SARS-CoV
noun
: the coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus of the genus Betacoronavirus) that is the causative agent of SARS
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