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The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review
Coronaviruses, members of Coronaviridae family, cause extensive epidemics of vast diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) in animals and humans. Super spread events (SSEs) potentiate early outbreak of the disease and its constant spread in later s...
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Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134970 |
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author | Kyriakopoulos, Anthony M. Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Georgilas, Nikolaos Doulberis, Michael Kountouras, Jannis |
author_facet | Kyriakopoulos, Anthony M. Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Georgilas, Nikolaos Doulberis, Michael Kountouras, Jannis |
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description | Coronaviruses, members of Coronaviridae family, cause extensive epidemics of vast diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) in animals and humans. Super spread events (SSEs) potentiate early outbreak of the disease and its constant spread in later stages. Viral recombination events within species and across hosts lead to natural selection based on advanced infectivity and resistance. In this review, the importance of containment of SSEs was investigated with emphasis on stopping COVID-19 spread and its socio-economic consequences. A comprehensive search was conducted among literature available in multiple electronic sources to find articles that addressed the “potential role of SSEs on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) pandemic” and were published before 20(th) of August 2020. Overall, ninety-eight articles were found eligible and reviewed. Specific screening strategies within potential super spreading host groups can also help to efficiently manage severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) epidemics, in contrast to the partially effective general restriction measures. The effect of SSEs on previous SARS epidemics has been documented in detail. However, the respective potential impact of SSEs on SARS-COV-2 outbreak is composed and presented in the current review, thereby implying the warranted effort required for effective SSE preventive strategies, which may lead to overt global community health benefits. This is crucial for SARS-COV-2 pandemic containment as the vaccine(s) development process will take considerable time to safely establish its potential usefulness for future clinical usage. |
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spelling | pubmed-75879862020-10-30 The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review Kyriakopoulos, Anthony M. Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Georgilas, Nikolaos Doulberis, Michael Kountouras, Jannis Arch Acad Emerg Med Review Article Coronaviruses, members of Coronaviridae family, cause extensive epidemics of vast diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) in animals and humans. Super spread events (SSEs) potentiate early outbreak of the disease and its constant spread in later stages. Viral recombination events within species and across hosts lead to natural selection based on advanced infectivity and resistance. In this review, the importance of containment of SSEs was investigated with emphasis on stopping COVID-19 spread and its socio-economic consequences. A comprehensive search was conducted among literature available in multiple electronic sources to find articles that addressed the “potential role of SSEs on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) pandemic” and were published before 20(th) of August 2020. Overall, ninety-eight articles were found eligible and reviewed. Specific screening strategies within potential super spreading host groups can also help to efficiently manage severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) epidemics, in contrast to the partially effective general restriction measures. The effect of SSEs on previous SARS epidemics has been documented in detail. However, the respective potential impact of SSEs on SARS-COV-2 outbreak is composed and presented in the current review, thereby implying the warranted effort required for effective SSE preventive strategies, which may lead to overt global community health benefits. This is crucial for SARS-COV-2 pandemic containment as the vaccine(s) development process will take considerable time to safely establish its potential usefulness for future clinical usage. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7587986/ /pubmed/33134970 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Kyriakopoulos, Anthony M. Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Georgilas, Nikolaos Doulberis, Michael Kountouras, Jannis The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title | The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title_full | The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title_fullStr | The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title_full_unstemmed | The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title_short | The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review |
title_sort | potential role of super spread events in sars-cov-2 pandemic; a narrative review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134970 |
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