Letter to the editor: Plenty of coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV-2

Philippe Colson; Bernard La Scola; Vera Esteves-Vieira; Laetitia Ninove; Christine Zandotti; Marie-Thérèse Jimeno; Céline Gazin; Marielle Bedotto; Véronique Filosa; Audrey Giraud-Gatineau; Hervé Chaudet; Philippe Brouqui; Jean-Christophe Lagier; Didier Raoult

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Letter to the editor: Plenty of coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV-2
Philippe Colson^1,2 , Bernard La Scola^1,2 , Vera Esteves-Vieira¹ , Laetitia Ninove^1,3 , Christine Zandotti^1,3 , Marie-Thérèse Jimeno⁴ , Céline Gazin¹ , Marielle Bedotto¹ , Véronique Filosa¹ , Audrey Giraud-Gatineau^1,5,6 , Hervé Chaudet^1,5,6 , Philippe Brouqui^1,2 , Jean-Christophe Lagier^1,2 , Didier Raoult^1,2
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Affiliations: ¹ Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France ² Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), France ³ Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix-Marseille University, IRD 190, Inserm 1207, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France ⁴ Service de l'Information Médicale, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France ⁵ Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Vecteurs – Infections Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (VITROME), Marseille, France ⁶ French Armed Forces Center for Epidemiology and Public Health (CESPA), Service de Santé des Armées (SSA), Marseille, France

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Citation style for this article: Colson Philippe, La Scola Bernard, Esteves-Vieira Vera, Ninove Laetitia, Zandotti Christine, Jimeno Marie-Thérèse, Gazin Céline, Bedotto Marielle, Filosa Véronique, Giraud-Gatineau Audrey, Chaudet Hervé, Brouqui Philippe, Lagier Jean-Christophe, Raoult Didier. Letter to the editor: Plenty of coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV-2. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(8):pii=2000171. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000171 Received: 21 Feb 2020; Accepted: 27 Feb 2020

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