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Description: This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Title: SARS-CoV-2 without background
Credit: https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=23312 This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #23312. Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers. Deutsch | English | македонски | slovenščina | +/− This file was derived from: 2019-nCoV-CDC-23312.png:
Author: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM
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