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Although the direct association with the disease is yet to be confirmed with more experimental data, our results provide several lines of evidence that the virus is most likely associated with this disease: (i) the viral titre is very high, with the abundance level reaching 1.5% and 0.62% of total reads sequenced, surpassing the highest expressed host genes to be one of the most dominant RNA molecules in the host transcriptome, an important sign that the virus is then under active replication [9]; (ii) since our RNA mNGS approach targets the total infectome (except for prion) [10], the fact that no other pathogens were identified from the infected sample underlines the unique role played by 2019-nCoV; (iii) the virus is grouped within the notorious CoV clade (i.e. SARS-like) with history of cross-virus transmission to humans [11] and has been demonstrated to have strong zoonotic potential [12]; and while this manuscript was under preparation, we noticed another case report from Wuhan which identified a same virus as the one found in this study [13]. |
