SARS-CoV-2

Translingual

Illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 viral coat

Wikispecies

Etymology

SARS-CoV +‎ 2

Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2

1. (virology) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; a virus which causes COVID-19 coronavirus disease, first discovered in 2019, in an outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:SARS-CoV-2.

Synonyms

(virus):

• 2019-nCoV (former name)
• HCoV-19, hCoV-19

Hypernyms

• (virus): Riboviria – realm; Orthornavirae – kingdom; Pisuviricota – phylum; Pisoniviricetes - class; Nidovirales - order; Cornidovirineae - suborder; Coronaviridae - family; Orthocoronavirinae - subfamily; Betacoronavirus - genus; Sarbecovirus - subgenus (per NCBI)

Hyponyms

(virus): The number of variants and their names shows a dynamic growth. See e.g. Variant_of_concern

• SARS-CoV-2 VOC
• B.1.1.7 (“UK variant, Alpha variant”)
• B.1.351 (“South African variant, Beta variant”)
• B.1.1.248 (“Brazilian variant, Gamma variant”)
• B.1.617.2 (“Delta variant”)
• B.1.1.529 (“Omikron variant”)

Coordinate terms

(virus):

closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2

• BANAL-103/BANAL-20-103
• BANAL-236/BANAL-20-236
• BANAL-52/BANAL-20-52
• RmYN02
• RpYN06
• SARSr-Ra-BatCoV-RaTG13/BatCoV-RaTG13/RaTG13

 

(viral components)

• N501 (spike protein coding)
• E484 (spike protein coding)
• K417 (protein coding)

Related terms

(virus):

Related terms

• SARS-CoV
• SARS-CoV-1
• SARSr-CoV
• MERS-CoV
• MERSr-CoV
• nCoV
• CoV
• SARS

Further reading

• SARS-CoV-2 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• SARS-CoV-2 on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• SARS-CoV-2 on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• SARS-CoV-2 at National Center for Biotechnology Information

English

Micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus particles

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːz ˈkəʊviː ˈtuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑɹz ˈkoʊvi ˈtu/

Proper noun

SARS-CoV-2

1. (virology) SARS-CoV-2; SARS-related coronavirus 2
   • 2020 April, Lu, Xiaoxia, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang et al., “SARS-CoV-2 infection in children”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 382, number 17, →DOI:

     As of March 10, 2020, the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been responsible for more than 110,000 infections and 4000 deaths worldwide, but data regarding the epidemiologic characteristics and clinical features of infected children are limited.

   • 2021 June, Krause, Philip R., Thomas R. Fleming, Ira M. Longini, Richard Peto, Sylvie Briand, David L. Heymann, Valerie Beral, Matthew D. Snape, Helen Rees, Alba-Maria Ropero, Ran D. Balicer, Jakob P. Cramer, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines”, in New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:

     In addition to continuing to track the emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there are four major priorities for the global response to variants of concern.

Synonyms

• Chinese virus
• COVID-19 virus
• novel coronavirus 2019
• Wuhan coronavirus
• Wuhan virus

Hypernyms

• virus
• coronavirus

Coordinate terms

• influenza
• MERS-related coronavirus

Related terms

• SARS-related coronavirus