Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first US COVID-19 patient
J. Harcourt, A. Tamin, X. Lu, S. Kamili, S. Kumar Sakthivel, L. Wang, J. Murray, K. Queen, B. Lynch, B. Whitaker, Y. Tao, C. Paden, J. Zhang, Y. Li, A. Uehara, , N. J. Thornburg
The paper isolates and characterizes SARS-CoV-2 from the first US COVID-19 patient, showing high replication in Vero cells and depositing the strain for public use.
bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology