Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020

A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Si...

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Autores principales: Bordi, Licia, Nicastri, Emanuele, Scorzolini, Laura, Di Caro, Antonino, Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria, Castilletti, Concetta, Lalle, Eleonora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7055037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127123
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000170
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author Bordi, Licia
Nicastri, Emanuele
Scorzolini, Laura
Di Caro, Antonino
Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria
Castilletti, Concetta
Lalle, Eleonora
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Nicastri, Emanuele
Scorzolini, Laura
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description A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Since the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, differential diagnosis in travellers arriving from countries with wide-spread COVID-19 must include other more common infections such as influenza and other respiratory tract diseases.
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spelling pubmed-70550372020-03-16 Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020 Bordi, Licia Nicastri, Emanuele Scorzolini, Laura Di Caro, Antonino Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria Castilletti, Concetta Lalle, Eleonora Euro Surveill Rapid Communication A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Since the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, differential diagnosis in travellers arriving from countries with wide-spread COVID-19 must include other more common infections such as influenza and other respiratory tract diseases. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7055037/ /pubmed/32127123 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000170 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Bordi, Licia
Nicastri, Emanuele
Scorzolini, Laura
Di Caro, Antonino
Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria
Castilletti, Concetta
Lalle, Eleonora
Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title_full Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title_fullStr Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title_full_unstemmed Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title_short Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020
title_sort differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (sars-cov-2), italy, february 2020
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7055037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127123
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000170
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