Chris Lauber

TL;DR: The independent zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV and SARS -CoV-2 highlights the need for studying viruses at the species level to complement research focused on individual pathogenic viruses of immediate significance.

TL;DR: The Coronavirus Study Group (CSG) of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses assessed the novelty of the human pathogen tentatively named 2019-nCoV and formally recognizes this virus as a sister to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

TL;DR: It is proposed that a novel human coronavirus isolated from a man with acute pneumonia and renal failure in June 2012 prototypes a novel species in the genus Betacoronavirus, which is closely related to bat coronaviruses that are distant from SARS-CoV.

TL;DR: The identification of a new human polyomavirus in plucked facial spines of a heart transplant patient with trichodysplasia spinulosa, a rare skin disease exclusively seen in immunocompromized patients, and the presence of TSV also in clinically unaffected individuals suggests frequent virus transmission causing subclinical, probably latent infections.

TL;DR: Rooted phylogenetic inference by Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood methods indicates that NDiV clusters with roniviruses and that its branch diverged from large nidoviruses early after they split from small nidviruses, a hypothesis that provides evolutionary support using comparative genomics involving the newly discovered first insect-borne ndovirus.