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SARS-CoV-1
Sunday 29 March 2020
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
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Definition : Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is the strain of virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
It is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which infects the epithelial cells within the lungs. The virus enters the host cell by binding to the ACE2 receptor.
It infects humans, bats, and palm civets.
A pandemic due to novel coronavirus disease in 2019 showed many similarities to the SARS outbreak, and the viral agent was identified as yet another strain of the SARS-related coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.