SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosed only by cell culture isolation before the local outbreak in an Italian seven-week-old suckling baby

A novel coronavirus was initially detected in Wuhan (China) starting from December 2019 in patients with severe pneumonia of unknown origin (Chen and Yu, 2020). Genome sequencing allowed to classify the virus into the subgenus Sar-becovirus of the genus Betacoronavirus; it was termed as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the illness it causes as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, considering the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries around the world (World Health Organization, 2020).
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Case Report Source Type: research