Caution in Identifying Coronavirus by Electron Microscopy

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Sarah E. Miller and Cynthia S. Goldsmith We are concerned about the erroneous identification of coro-navirus directly in tissues by authors using electron microscopy. Several recent articles have been published that purport to have identified severe acute respiratory syndrome corona- virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) directly in tissue. Most describe particles that resemble, but do not have […]