World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

An unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan City, Hubei province in China emerged in December 2019. A novel coronavirus was identified as the causative agent and was subsequently termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Considered a relative of severe acute re...

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Autores principales: Sohrabi, Catrin, Alsafi, Zaid, O'Neill, Niamh, Khan, Mehdi, Kerwan, Ahmed, Al-Jabir, Ahmed, Iosifidis, Christos, Agha, Riaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32112977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.02.034
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Sumario:An unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan City, Hubei province in China emerged in December 2019. A novel coronavirus was identified as the causative agent and was subsequently termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Considered a relative of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), COVID-19 is caused by a betacoronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 that affects the lower respiratory tract and manifests as pneumonia in humans. Despite rigorous global containment and quarantine efforts, the incidence of COVID-19 continues to rise, with 90,870 laboratory-confirmed cases and over 3,000 deaths worldwide. In response to this global outbreak, we summarise the current state of knowledge surrounding COVID-19.

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