0 a type of virus that causes diseases in humans and animals. In humans, it usually causes respiratory infections (= in the nose, throat, or chest) that are not serious, but can sometimes cause more serious infections that can kill people:
Scientists working with the World Health Organization have identified the cause of the deaths as a novel coronavirus.
The previously unknown coronavirus is believed to have originated in animals before "jumping" to humans.
The coronavirus that causes Feline Infectious Peritonitis in cats was isolated.
Both patients had coronavirus infections.
These outbreaks establish this virus as a cause of morbidity in aged-care facilities and add to increasing evidence of the significance of coronavirus infections.
An outbreak was attributed to coronavirus when at least two respiratory specimens tested positive for the virus in the absence of other common respiratory pathogens.
However, no antigenic relationship to infectious bronchitis virus (an avian coronavirus) was detected.
