Coronavirus disease 2019: What we know?
Tongji Hospital · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Abstract
In late December 2019, a cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases has been reported in Wuhan, China. A few days later, the causative agent of this mysterious pneumonia was identified as a novel coronavirus. This causative virus has been temporarily named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and the relevant infected disease has been named as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization, respectively. The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading in China and all over the world now. The purpose of this review is primarily to review the pathogen, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19, but also to comment briefly on the epidemiology and pathology based on the current…
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3Topics & keywords
- Coronavirus
- Pneumonia
- Atypical pneumonia
- Virology
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Epidemiology
- Disease
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Good health and well-being