| Author | Borsetti, Alessandra | |
| Author | Scarpa, Fabio | |
| Author | Maruotti, Antonello | |
| Author | Divino, Fabio | |
| Author | Ceccarelli, Giancarlo | |
| Author | Giovanetti, Marta | |
| Author | Ciccozzi, Massimo | |
| Access date | 2022-12-24T11:22:21Z | |
| Available date | 2022-12-24T11:22:21Z | |
| Document date | 2022 | |
| Citation | BORSETTI, Alessandra et al. The unresolved question on COVID‐19 virus origin: The three cards game?. Journal of Medical Virology, v. 94, p. 1257-1260, 2022. | en_US |
| ISSN | 1096-9071 | en_US |
| URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/56194 | |
| Language | eng | en_US |
| Publisher | Wiley | en_US |
| Rights | open access | |
| Subject in Portuguese | Coronavirus | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Epidemiologia | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Pandemia | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | SARS coronavirus | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Classificação de vírus | en_US |
| Title | The unresolved question on COVID‐19 virus origin: The three cards game? | en_US |
| Type | Article | |
| DOI | 10.1002/jmv.27519 | |
| Abstract | The ongoing discussion about the real origin of the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) feeds acrimonious debates. Where did
SARS‐CoV‐2 come from? Was SARS‐CoV‐2 transmitted in the wild from an animal
to a person before exploding in Wuhan or was it an engineered virus that escaped
from research or a laboratory in Wuhan? Right now, we still don't know enough
whether SARS‐CoV‐2 is human‐made or not, and lab‐leak theories remain essentially
speculative. Many recent studies have pointed out several plausible scenarios.
Anyhow, currently, even if suspicions by some about the possibility of lab‐leak
hypothesis still remain, the consensus view is that the pandemic probably started
from a natural source and, to determine the real origin of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus,
further research is needed. | en_US |
| Affilliation | National HIV/AIDS Research Center, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Department GEPLI, Libera Università Maria SS Assunta, Rome, Italy / Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Department of Biosciences, Laboratory of Biostatistics and Computational Epidemiology, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Flavivírus. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Laboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular, ICB, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio‐Medico University, Rome, Italy. | en_US |
| Subject | Coronavirus | en_US |
| Subject | Epidemiology | en_US |
| Subject | Pandemics | en_US |
| Subject | SARS coronavirus | en_US |
| Subject | Virus classification | en_US |
