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Review
. 2020 Aug 12:13:2819-2828.
doi: 10.2147/IDR.S259279. eCollection 2020.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019): A New Coronavirus Disease

Amin Sadeghi Dousari  1 , Majid Taati Moghadam  2   3 , Naghmeh Satarzadeh  4   5
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Review

COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019): A New Coronavirus Disease

Amin Sadeghi Dousari et al. Infect Drug Resist. .

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a type of viral pneumonia with an uncommon outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). SARS-CoV-2 is extremely contagious and has resulted in a fast pandemic of COVID-19. Currently, COVID-19 is on the rise around the world, and it poses a severe threat to public health around the world. This review provides an overview about the COVID-19 virus to increase public awareness and understanding of the virus and its consequences in terms of history, epidemiology, structure, genome, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus disease 2019; novel coronavirus.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

Figures

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Figure 1
History of harmful human coronaviruses.
Figure 2
Figure 2
SARS-CoV-2 virus structure.
Figure 3
Figure 3
SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission.
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