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[Bloomberg] First images of how coronavirus replicates in cells
Jason Gale, 31 January 2020
- Magnified pictures of the microbial cause of the pneumonia outbreak that has sparked a global health emergency were released by John Nicholls, Leo Poon and Malik Peiris of the University of Hong Kong
- Thin-section electron micrographs of the novel coronavirus show part of an infected cell, grown in a culture, with virus particles being released from the cell’s surface.
- Each infected cell produces thousands of new infectious virus particles that can go on to infect new cells.