Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23072791›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of infection2012

Is the discovery of the novel human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC) the beginning of another SARS-like pandemic?

Jasper F W Chan, Kenneth S M Li, Kelvin K W To, Vincent C C Cheng, Honglin Chen, Kwok-Yung Yuen

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of infection, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
112citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Dual Inhibitors of Main Protease (MJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2022
    Article
  3. The COVID-19 pandemic - How many times were we warned before?European journal of internal medicine · 2022
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Dyslipidemia in breast cancer patients increases the risk of SAR-CoV-2 infection.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2021
    Review
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. SARS-CoV-2 MBiomolecules · 2021
    Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Clinical manifestation and disease progression in COVID-19 infection.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2021
    Review
  20. Nanotechnology-based therapeutic formulations in the battle against animal coronaviruses: an update.Journal of nanoparticle research : an interdisciplinary forum for nanoscale science and technology · 2021
    Review

52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jasper F W ChanDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
Kenneth S M Li
Kelvin K W To
Vincent C C Cheng
Honglin Chen
Kwok-Yung Yuen

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fouchier et al. reported the isolation and genome sequencing of a novel coronavirus tentatively named "human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC)" from a Saudi patient presenting with pneumonia and renal failure in June 2012. Genome sequencing showed that this virus belongs to the group C species of the genus betacoronavirus and phylogenetically related to the bat coronaviruses HKU4 and HKU5 previously found in lesser bamboo bat and Japanese Pipistrelle bat of Hong Kong respectively. Another patient from Qatar with similar clinical presentation and positive RT-PCR test was reported in September 2012. We compare and contrast the clinical presentation, laboratory diagnosis and management of infection due to this novel coronavirus and that of SARS coronavirus despite the paucity of published information on the former. Since 70% of all emerging infectious pathogens came from animals, the emergence of this novel virus may represent another instance of interspecies jumping of betacoronavirus from animals to human similar to the group A coronavirus OC43 possibly from a bovine source in the 1890s and the group B SARS coronavirus in 2003 from bat to civet and human. Despite the apparently low transmissibility of the virus at this stage, research preparedness against another SARS-like pandemic is an important precautionary strategy.

Indexed as

PandemicsAnimalsChiropteraCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsHumansPhylogenySaudi ArabiaSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeSheepWorld Health Organization

Identifiers

PMID23072791
PMCPMC7112628

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.