SARS-CoV-2

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Etymology

From SARS-CoV +‎ 2. [1]

Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2

  1. (virology) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; a virus which causes COVID-19 coronavirus disease, first discovered in 2019, in an outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:SARS-CoV-2.

Synonyms

(virus):

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

(virus): The number of variants and their names shows a dynamic growth. See e.g. Variant of concern

  • B.1.1.248 (“Brazilian variant, Gamma variant”)
  • B.1.1.529 (“Omikron variant”)
  • B.1.1.7 (“UK variant, Alpha variant”)
  • B.1.351 (“South African variant, Beta variant”)
  • B.1.617.2 (“Delta variant”)
  • SARS-CoV-2 VOC

Coordinate terms

(virus):

closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2
  • BANAL-103, BANAL-20-103
  • BANAL-236, BANAL-20-236
  • BANAL-52, BANAL-20-52
  • RmYN02
  • RpYN06
  • SARSr-Ra-BatCoV-RaTG13, BatCoV-RaTG13, RaTG13

(viral components)

  • N501 (spike protein coding)
  • E484 (spike protein coding)
  • K417 (protein coding)

(virus):

References

  1. ^ BioRxviv, "Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus – The species and its viruses, a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group", Alexander E. Gorbalenya, 11 February 2020, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Coronavirus Study Group

Further reading

English

Pronunciation

Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2

  1. (virology) SARS-CoV-2; SARS-related coronavirus 2
    • 2020 March 31, Sandee LaMotte, “What is coronavirus and Covid-19? An explainer”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 can trigger a potentially deadly respiratory disease called Covid-19, an illness which presents with three main acute symptoms: fever, a deep, dry cough and a shortness of breath which can become quickly life-threatening.
    • 2020 April, Lu, Xiaoxia, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang et al., “SARS-CoV-2 infection in children”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 382, number 17, →DOI:
      As of March 10, 2020, the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been responsible for more than 110,000 infections and 4000 deaths worldwide, but data regarding the epidemiologic characteristics and clinical features of infected children are limited.
    • 2021 June, Krause, Philip R., Thomas R. Fleming, Ira M. Longini, Richard Peto, Sylvie Briand, David L. Heymann, Valerie Beral, Matthew D. Snape, Helen Rees, Alba-Maria Ropero, Ran D. Balicer, Jakob P. Cramer, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines”, in New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:
      In addition to continuing to track the emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there are four major priorities for the global response to variants of concern.

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Coordinate terms

  • SARS-related coronavirus
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