As the world is dealing with a pandemic caused by one novel coronavirus that likely jumped from animals, researchers have identified another novel coronavirus from a child with pneumonia in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 2017-18, reports a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.Dubbed CCoV-HuPn-2018, this new virus is the first canine coronavirus (CCoV) to ever be isolated from a human.If CCoV-HuPn-2018 is confirmed as a pathogen, it would be the eighth known coronavirus to cause infection in humans.Shared traits with other coronavirusesLead study author Anastasia Vlasova, DVM, PhD, of The Ohio State University, and her team used reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays, cultured the virus in A72 canine cells, and pieced