An Italian male with no link to China SARS-CoV-2 epidemic presented at
Emergency Room with severe respiratory impairment. The RT-PCR on 20th
February, 2020, nasopharyngeal swab revealed SARS-CoV-2 infection,
confirmed with viral culture and sequencing. This was the first
identified autochthonous SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Italy, that unveiled
global pathogen diffusion.