Virological assessment of hospitalized patients with COVID-2019

R Wölfel, VM Corman, W Guggemos, M Seilmaier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute infection of the respiratory tract
that emerged in late 2019,. Initial outbreaks in China involved 13.8% of cases with severe …

Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR

VM Corman, O Landt, M Kaiser, R Molenkamp… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The ongoing outbreak of the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
poses a challenge for public health laboratories as virus isolates are unavailable while there …

Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19

J Meinhardt, J Radke, C Dittmayer, J Franz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The newly identified severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
causes COVID-19, a pandemic respiratory disease. Moreover, thromboembolic events …

Assay optimization for molecular detection of Zika virus

VM Corman, A Rasche, C Baronti… - Bulletin of the World …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To examine the diagnostic performance of real-time reverse transcription (RT)-
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for Zika virus detection. Methods We compared …

[PDF][PDF] Diagnostic detection of 2019-nCoV by real-time RT-PCR

V Corman, T Bleicker, S Brünink, C Drosten… - World Health …, 2020 - who.int
Background We used known SARS-and SARS-related coronaviruses (bat viruses from our
own studies as well as literature sources) to generate a non-redundant alignment (excerpts …

Characterization of a novel betacoronavirus related to middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in European hedgehogs

VM Corman, R Kallies, H Philipps, G Göpner… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.asm.org
Bats are known to host viruses closely related to important human coronaviruses (HCoVs),
such as HCoV-229E, severe-acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), and …

[PDF][PDF] Diagnostic detection of Wuhan coronavirus 2019 by real-time RT-PCR

V Corman, T Bleicker, S Brünink, C Drosten… - Geneva: World Health …, 2020 - who.int
Background We used known SARS-and SARS-related coronaviruses (bat viruses from our
own studies as well as literature sources) to generate a non-redundant alignment (excerpts …

Limited specificity of serologic tests for SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection, Benin

A Yadouleton, AL Sander… - Emerging infectious …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We used commercially available ELISAs to test 68 samples from coronavirus disease cases
and prepandemic controls from Benin. We noted< 25% false-positive results among …

Author Correction: Virological assessment of hospitalized patients with COVID-2019

R Wölfel, VM Corman, W Guggemos, M Seilmaier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
In this Article, the text “For swab and sputum samples, interpolation based on a probit model
was done to obtain laboratory-based infectivity criteria for the discharge of patients (Fig. 1e …

First detection of an enterovirus C99 in a captive chimpanzee with acute flaccid paralysis, from the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center, Republic of …

IM Mombo, N Berthet, AN Lukashev, T Bleicker… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Enteroviruses, members of the Picornaviridae family, are ubiquitous viruses responsible for
mild to severe infections in human populations around the world. In 2010 Pointe-Noire …