[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[James Landau]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1306801/ accessed March 16, 2020 "The name “coronavirus,” coined in 1968, is derived from the “corona”-like or crown-like morphology observed for these viruses in the electron microscope (318). In 1975, the Coronaviridae family was established by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses.  footnote 318 reads "318. Tyrrel, D. A. J., J. D. Almedia, D. M. Berry, C. H. Cunningham, D. Hamre, M. S. Hofstad, L. Malluci, and K. McIntosh. 1968. Coronavirus. Nature 220:650."  James Landau
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