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Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?

The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of s...

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Autores principales: Steele, Edward J., Gorczynski, Reginald M., Lindley, Robyn A., Tokoro, Gensuke, Temple, Robert, Wickramasinghe, N. Chandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33081928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.04.002
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Gorczynski, Reginald M.
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Tokoro, Gensuke
Temple, Robert
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description The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of sudden emergence and global spread, which are not easy to understand by conventional epidemiological analysis based on simple infection-driven human- to-human spread of an infectious disease (assumed to jump suddenly and thus genetically, from an animal reservoir). Both these enigmatic diseases make sense however under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-73587662020-07-14 Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic? Steele, Edward J. Gorczynski, Reginald M. Lindley, Robyn A. Tokoro, Gensuke Temple, Robert Wickramasinghe, N. Chandra Adv Genet Article The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of sudden emergence and global spread, which are not easy to understand by conventional epidemiological analysis based on simple infection-driven human- to-human spread of an infectious disease (assumed to jump suddenly and thus genetically, from an animal reservoir). Both these enigmatic diseases make sense however under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed. Elsevier Inc. 2020 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7358766/ /pubmed/33081928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.04.002 Text en Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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