SARS-CoV-1

[ sahrz-koh-vee-wuhn ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 1: the first identified strain of a coronavirus that causes SARS. It appeared in late 2002 and subsequently triggered short-lived epidemics mostly in parts of East Asia.

Example Sentences

While they quickly homed in on viruses in civets, badgers, and raccoon dogs that were more than 99% identical to SARS-CoV-1, subsequent investigations did not turn up widespread circulation of the virus, either in the wild or in farmed conditions.

From MIT Technology Review

Based on early work on the genome of SARS-CoV-2 and its interaction with 300 human proteins, the group expanded their computational analysis to SARS-CoV-1 and its cousin, MERS-CoV to fish out any commonalities.

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