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Case Reports
. 2020 Jun;53(3):481-484.
doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.02.009. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Taiwan: Reports of two cases from Wuhan, China

Wei-Hsuan Huang  1 , Ling-Chiao Teng  2 , Ting-Kuang Yeh  2 , Yu-Jen Chen  2 , Wei-Jung Lo  2 , Ming-Ju Wu  2 , Chun-Shih Chin  3 , Yu-Tse Tsan  4 , Tzu-Chieh Lin  4 , Jyh-Wen Chai  5 , Chin-Fu Lin  6 , Chien-Hao Tseng  1 , Chia-Wei Liu  1 , Chi-Mei Wu  7 , Po-Yen Chen  8 , Zhi-Yuan Shi  9 , Po-Yu Liu  10
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2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Taiwan: Reports of two cases from Wuhan, China

Wei-Hsuan Huang et al. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

We reported two cases with community-acquired pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) who returned from Wuhan, China in January, 2020. The reported cases highlight non-specific clinical presentations of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as well as the importance of rapid laboratory-based diagnosis.

Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging infectious diseases; Pneumonia; SARS-CoV-2; Zoonosis.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Chest radiographs of two patients returned from Wuhan, China, with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in middle Taiwan. (A) Case 1: increasing opacity at right middle and lower lung fields at hospital day 6. (B) Case 2: patchy consolidation over bilateral lower lung fields of at hospital day 6.
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