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  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,774 Views
23 Pages

16 June 2021

Coronaviruses are a group of RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses with the capacity for rapid mutation and recombination. Coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory or intestinal infections in humans and animals. In this paper, a biologically compatible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,923 Views
11 Pages

Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics or patterns of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic is critical in effectively preventing and controlling this epidemic. However, no research analyzed the spatial dependency and temporal dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,636 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2021

The outbreak and rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global financial markets, including the energy sector. Alternative energy belongs to the economy’s key sectors concerning environmental issues and seems to be a full-fledged alternati...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,032 Views
9 Pages

11 August 2020

The world is currently facing a serious pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which started in Wuhan, China, and was then transmitted rapidly to other countries. Countries applied different methods and procedures in an attempt to prevent or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,404 Views
18 Pages

Uncertainty puts people in a binary state of mind, where every piece of external information can positively or negatively affect their state of health. Given the uncertain situation created by the new coronavirus pandemic, this study claims to be the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Citations
13,163 Views
15 Pages

Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated with Lower Knowledge and Higher Anxiety Levels Regarding COVID-19 among Students at the University of Jordan

  • Malik Sallam,
  • Deema Dababseh,
  • Alaa’ Yaseen,
  • Ayat Al-Haidar,
  • Nidaa A. Ababneh,
  • Faris G. Bakri and
  • Azmi Mahafzah

The world has been afflicted heavily by the burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that overwhelmed health care systems and caused severe economic and educational deficits, in addition to anxiety among the public. The main aim of this study wa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Citations
18,512 Views
8 Pages

11 February 2020

The outbreak of pneumonia originating in Wuhan, China, has generated 24,500 confirmed cases, including 492 deaths, as of 5 February 2020. The virus (2019-nCoV) has spread elsewhere in China and to 24 countries, including South Korea, Thailand, Japan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
128 Citations
23,694 Views
23 Pages

15 April 2020

An outbreak of novel coronavirus-related pneumonia COVID-19, that was identified in December 2019, has expanded rapidly, with cases now confirmed in more than 211 countries or areas. This constant transmission of a novel coronavirus and its ability t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,590 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the RavenPack news-based index associated with coronavirus outbreak (Panic, Sentiment, Infodemic, and Media Coverage) and returns of two commodities—Bitcoin and gold. We utilized the novel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
539 Citations
147,312 Views
14 Pages

SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus Disease 2019: What We Know So Far

  • Firas A. Rabi,
  • Mazhar S. Al Zoubi,
  • Ghena A. Kasasbeh,
  • Dunia M. Salameh and
  • Amjad D. Al-Nasser

In December 2019, a cluster of fatal pneumonia cases presented in Wuhan, China. They were caused by a previously unknown coronavirus. All patients had been associated with the Wuhan Wholefood market, where seafood and live animals are sold. The virus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
3,556 Views
13 Pages

Modified Predictor–Corrector Method for the Numerical Solution of a Fractional-Order SIR Model with 2019-nCoV

  • Wei Gao,
  • Pundikala Veeresha,
  • Carlo Cattani,
  • Chandrali Baishya and
  • Haci Mehmet Baskonus

In this paper, we analyzed and found the solution for a suitable nonlinear fractional dynamical system that describes coronavirus (2019-nCoV) using a novel computational method. A compartmental model with four compartments, namely, susceptible, infec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,242 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of Structural and Energetic Differences between Conformations of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

  • Rodrigo A. Moreira,
  • Horacio V. Guzman,
  • Subramanian Boopathi,
  • Joseph L. Baker and
  • Adolfo B. Poma

26 November 2020

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted modern societies and their economies. The resurgence in COVID-19 cases as part of the second wave is observed across Europe and the Americas. The scientific response has enabled a c...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
106 Citations
12,754 Views
5 Pages

Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Secretome for Severe COVID-19 Infections: Premises for the Therapeutic Use

  • Elia Bari,
  • Ilaria Ferrarotti,
  • Laura Saracino,
  • Sara Perteghella,
  • Maria Luisa Torre and
  • Angelo Guido Corsico

9 April 2020

From the end of 2019, the world population has been faced the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 responsible for COVID-19 infection. In approximately 14% of the patients affected by the novel coronavirus, the infection progresses with the dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,671 Views
22 Pages

Novel Pan-Coronavirus 3CL Protease Inhibitor MK-7845: Biological and Pharmacological Profiling

  • Nadine Alvarez,
  • Gregory C. Adam,
  • John A. Howe,
  • Vijeta Sharma,
  • Matthew D. Zimmerman,
  • Enriko Dolgov,
  • Risha Rasheed,
  • Fatima Nizar,
  • Khushboo Sahay and
  • David S. Perlin
  • + 21 authors

18 July 2024

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to be a global threat due to its ability to evolve and generate new subvariants, leading to new waves of infection. Additionally, other coronaviruses like Middle East respira...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,299 Views
3 Pages

The advent of the novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has fuelled technological innovation and led to the increased research on development and deployment of new diagnostics for use at point-of-care (POC) [...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
100 Citations
42,508 Views
15 Pages

7 August 2020

Since late December 2019, a novel, emerging coronavirus was identified as the infectious agent responsible for a generally mild but sometimes severe and even life-threatening disease, termed as “coronavirus disease 2019” (COVID-19). The pathogen was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,397 Views
20 Pages

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein-Expressing Enterococcus for Oral Vaccination: Immunogenicity and Protection

  • Alexander Suvorov,
  • Svetlana Loginova,
  • Galina Leontieva,
  • Tatiana Gupalova,
  • Yulia Desheva,
  • Dmitry Korzhevskii,
  • Tatiana Kramskaya,
  • Elena Bormotova,
  • Irina Koroleva and
  • Sergey Borisevitch
  • + 5 authors

14 November 2023

The declaration of the conclusion of the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, coronavirus remains prevalent in circulation, and the potential emergence of novel variants of concern introduces the possibility of new outbreaks. Moreover, it is not clear...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
8,532 Views
31 Pages

SARS-CoV-2 Infection: New Molecular, Phylogenetic, and Pathogenetic Insights. Efficacy of Current Vaccines and the Potential Risk of Variants

  • John Charles Rotondo,
  • Fernanda Martini,
  • Martina Maritati,
  • Chiara Mazziotta,
  • Giulia Di Mauro,
  • Carmen Lanzillotti,
  • Nicole Barp,
  • Altea Gallerani,
  • Mauro Tognon and
  • Carlo Contini

25 August 2021

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a newly discovered coronavirus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. COVID-19 has rapidly become a public health emergency of international concern. Although...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,502 Views
16 Pages

Emerging Prevention and Treatment Strategies to Control COVID-19

  • Vipul K. Singh,
  • Abhishek Mishra,
  • Shubhra Singh,
  • Premranjan Kumar,
  • Manisha Singh,
  • Chinnaswamy Jagannath and
  • Arshad Khan

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has now become a serious global threat after inflicting more than 8 million infections and 425,000 deaths in less than 6 months....

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,318 Views
35 Pages

A Survey on COVID-19 Data Analysis Using AI, IoT, and Social Media

  • Muhammad Junaid Butt,
  • Ahmad Kamran Malik,
  • Nafees Qamar,
  • Samad Yar,
  • Arif Jamal Malik and
  • Usman Rauf

13 June 2023

Coronaviruses are a well-established and deadly group of viruses that cause illness in both humans and animals. The novel type of this virus group, named COVID-19, was firstly reported in December 2019, and, with the passage of time, coronavirus has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,916 Views
19 Pages

Bioactive Terpenes and Their Derivatives as Potential SARS-CoV-2 Proteases Inhibitors from Molecular Modeling Studies

  • Lúcio Ricardo Leite Diniz,
  • Yunierkis Perez-Castillo,
  • Hatem A. Elshabrawy,
  • Carlos da Silva Maia Bezerra Filho and
  • Damião Pergentino de Sousa

7 January 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by a novel coronavirus; the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Millions of cases and deaths to date have resulted in a global challenge for healthcare systems. COVI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,954 Views
12 Pages

Immunogenicity Evaluating of the Multivalent COVID-19 Inactivated Vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants

  • Yuntao Zhang,
  • Wenjie Tan,
  • Zhiyong Lou,
  • Baoying Huang,
  • Weimin Zhou,
  • Yuxiu Zhao,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Hongyang Liang,
  • Na Li and
  • Xiaoming Yang
  • + 14 authors

16 June 2022

It has been reported that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused more than 286 million cases and 5.4 million deaths to date. Several strategies have been implemented globally, such as social distancing and the development of the vaccines. Severa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
16,698 Views
24 Pages

Identification of New Respiratory Viruses in the New Millennium

  • Michael Berry,
  • Junaid Gamieldien and
  • Burtram C. Fielding

6 March 2015

The rapid advancement of molecular tools in the past 15 years has allowed for the retrospective discovery of several new respiratory viruses as well as the characterization of novel emergent strains. The inability to characterize the etiological orig...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,017 Views
11 Pages

23 March 2021

The emergent human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its high infectivity rate has highlighted the strong need for new disinfection systems. Evidence has proven that airborne transmission is an important route of spreading for this virus. Therefore, this sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,445 Views
13 Pages

PABPC4 Inhibits SADS-CoV Replication by Degrading the Nucleocapsid Protein Through Selective Autophagy

  • Chenchen Zhao,
  • Yan Qin,
  • Haixin Huang,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Yanqing Hu,
  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Yuying Li,
  • Tian Lan and
  • Wenchao Sun

10 March 2025

Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV) is a novel enteric coronavirus that causes severe clinical diarrhea and intestinal pathological injury in pigs. Selective autophagy is an important mechanism of host defense against virus invasion....

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,140 Views
4 Pages

COVID-19, a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerging in China’s Hubei province in late 2019, due to a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is causing a global pandemic involving many areas of the world, which so far counts more than 43...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,040 Views
14 Pages

Peptide Derivatives of the Zonulin Inhibitor Larazotide (AT1001) as Potential Anti SARS-CoV-2: Molecular Modelling, Synthesis and Bioactivity Evaluation

  • Simone Di Micco,
  • Simona Musella,
  • Marina Sala,
  • Maria C. Scala,
  • Graciela Andrei,
  • Robert Snoeck,
  • Giuseppe Bifulco,
  • Pietro Campiglia and
  • Alessio Fasano

30 August 2021

A novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been identified as the pathogen responsible for the outbreak of a severe, rapidly developing pneumonia (Coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19). The virus enzyme, call...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,788 Views
15 Pages

The Challenging Diagnosis of Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Associated with Sars-Cov-2 Infection-Two Case Reports and Literature Review

  • Marcela Daniela Ionescu,
  • Roxana Taras,
  • Bianca Dombici,
  • Mihaela Balgradean,
  • Elena Camelia Berghea and
  • Alin Nicolescu

19 April 2021

Severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus discovered in 2019 that caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19). During the last year, over 70 million people were infected and more than 1.5 million people died. Despit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,597 Views
16 Pages

Progress on COVID-19 Chemotherapeutics Discovery and Novel Technology

  • Yalan Zhou,
  • Huizhen Wang,
  • Li Yang and
  • Qingzhong Wang

26 November 2022

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel highly contagious and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019. SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through virus-containing droplets a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,047 Views
11 Pages

COVID-19 and Its Impact on Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer Management

  • Shalini Fernando,
  • Mesel Veli,
  • Borzoueh Mohammadi,
  • Andrew Millar and
  • Khurum Khan

21 January 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has left dramatic footprints on human health and economy. Cancer, whilst not an infective disease, is prevalent in epidemic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,411 Views
45 Pages

Nanobiosensors for the Detection of Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV and Other Pandemic/Epidemic Respiratory Viruses: A Review

  • Badriyah Alhalaili,
  • Ileana Nicoleta Popescu,
  • Olfa Kamoun,
  • Feras Alzubi,
  • Sami Alawadhia and
  • Ruxandra Vidu

18 November 2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is considered a public health emergency of international concern. The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that caused this pandemic has sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,050 Views
14 Pages

Genomic Characterization of a Novel Alphacoronavirus Isolated from Bats, Korea, 2020

  • Hai-Quynh Do,
  • Van-Giap Nguyen,
  • Chul-Un Chung,
  • Yong-Shin Jeon,
  • Sook Shin,
  • Kuem-Chan Jang,
  • Le Bich Hang Pham,
  • Aeri Kong,
  • Cheong-Ung Kim and
  • Hee-Chun Chung
  • + 2 authors

11 October 2021

Coronavirus, an important zoonotic disease, raises concerns of future pandemics. The bat is considered a source of noticeable viruses resulting in human and livestock infections, especially the coronavirus. Therefore, surveillance and genetic analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,610 Views
13 Pages

LMP7 as a Target for Coronavirus Therapy: Inhibition by Ixazomib and Interaction with SARS-CoV-2 Proteins Nsp13 and Nsp16

  • Yi Ru,
  • Yue Ma-Lauer,
  • Chengyu Xiang,
  • Pengyuan Li,
  • Brigitte von Brunn,
  • Anja Richter,
  • Christian Drosten,
  • Andreas Pichlmair,
  • Susanne Pfefferle and
  • Albrecht von Brunn
  • + 3 authors

2 September 2025

The emergence of human coronaviruses has led to three epidemics or pandemics in the last two decades, collectively causing millions of deaths and thus highlighting a long-term need to identify new antiviral drug targets and develop antiviral therapeu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,322 Views
19 Pages

SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Mediated Entry and Its Regulation by Host Innate Immunity

  • Shi Yu,
  • Huina Hu,
  • Qiangyun Ai,
  • Rong Bai,
  • Kaixiong Ma,
  • Minmin Zhou and
  • Shaobo Wang

27 February 2023

The constantly evolving severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOC) fuel the worldwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The spike protein is essential for the SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and thus has been...

  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Citations
17,664 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2020

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has become a real challenge for healthcare providers around the world and has significantly affected the dental professionals in practices, universities and research institutions. The aim of this article was...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,503 Views
34 Pages

Antiparasitic Drugs against SARS-CoV-2: A Comprehensive Literature Survey

  • Estefanía Calvo-Alvarez,
  • Maria Dolci,
  • Federica Perego,
  • Lucia Signorini,
  • Silvia Parapini,
  • Sarah D’Alessandro,
  • Luca Denti,
  • Nicoletta Basilico,
  • Donatella Taramelli and
  • Serena Delbue
  • + 1 author

More than two years have passed since the viral outbreak that led to the novel infectious respiratory disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Since then, the urgency for effective treatments resulted in unprecedented efforts to develo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,413 Views
14 Pages

COVID-19 and Neurological Impairment: Hypothalamic Circuits and Beyond

  • Bashair M. Mussa,
  • Ankita Srivastava and
  • Anthony J. M. Verberne

17 March 2021

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, China. The virus infection, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), represents a global concern, as almos...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,223 Views
6 Pages

Vertebral Pain in Acute COVID-19—Cases Report

  • Juraj Chochol,
  • Andrej Džubera,
  • Róbert Illéš,
  • Alica Chocholová and
  • Erika Zemková

28 July 2021

Pain is one of the most common complaints among patients infected by SARS-CoV-2. While headache and chest pain are reported widely among COVID-19 presentations, there are only scarce reports about vertebral pain. This study aims to describe cases of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
96 Citations
21,189 Views
20 Pages

Dynamics of Population Immunity Due to the Herd Effect in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez,
  • Alberto Hormeño-Holgado,
  • Manuel Jiménez,
  • Juan Camilo Benitez-Agudelo,
  • Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez,
  • Natalia Perez-Palencia,
  • Ronald Maestre-Serrano,
  • Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas and
  • Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera

The novel Coronavirus 2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-Cov-2) has led to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has surprised health authorities around the world, quickly producing a global health crisis. Different actions t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,979 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2020

Three types of new coronaviruses (CoVs) have been identified recently as the causative viruses for the severe pneumonia-like respiratory illnesses, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and corona-virus di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,437 Views
27 Pages

29 May 2020

“Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”, the novel coronavirus, is responsible for the ongoing worldwide pandemic. “World Health Organization (WHO)” assigned an “International Classification of Dis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,996 Views
35 Pages

The Global Emergency of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): An Update of the Current Status and Forecasting

  • Hossein Hozhabri,
  • Francesca Piceci Sparascio,
  • Hamidreza Sohrabi,
  • Leila Mousavifar,
  • René Roy,
  • Daniela Scribano,
  • Alessandro De Luca,
  • Cecilia Ambrosi and
  • Meysam Sarshar

Over the past two decades, there have been two major outbreaks where the crossover of animal Betacoronaviruses to humans has resulted in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,637 Views
18 Pages

Estimation of COVID-19 Transmission and Advice on Public Health Interventions

  • Qingqing Ji,
  • Xu Zhao,
  • Hanlin Ma,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Yiwen Liu and
  • Qiyue Guan

10 November 2021

At the end of 2019, an outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) made a profound impact on the country’s production and people’s daily lives. Up until now, COVID-19 has not been fully controlled all over the world. Based on the clinical research p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
136 Citations
19,805 Views
26 Pages

Of Mice and Men: The Coronavirus MHV and Mouse Models as a Translational Approach to Understand SARS-CoV-2

  • Robert W. Körner,
  • Mohamed Majjouti,
  • Miguel A. Alejandre Alcazar and
  • Esther Mahabir

12 August 2020

The fatal acute respiratory coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, infection and mortality...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,050 Views
13 Pages

Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Water and Environment—A Scoping Review

  • Taufique Warsi,
  • Tanvi Arora,
  • Syed Shams Rizvi,
  • Ali Raza Moosvi,
  • M. A. Mohammed Aslam,
  • Mohammad Muqtada Ali Khan and
  • Arifullah Mohammed

31 March 2022

A pneumonia outbreak was primarily reported in the fall of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, with the identity SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus. It quickly grew from a local epidemic to a global pandemic and was declared a public health emergency...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,864 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2022

Humans interact with virus-infected animal hosts, travel globally, and maintain social networks that allow for novel viruses to emerge and develop pandemic potential. There are key lessons-learned from the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,903 Views
18 Pages

From Biomedical Applications of Alginate towards CVD Implications Linked to COVID-19

  • Angela Spoială,
  • Cornelia-Ioana Ilie,
  • Denisa Ficai,
  • Anton Ficai and
  • Ecaterina Andronescu

In the past year, researchers have focused their attention on developing new strategies for understanding how the coronavirus affects human health and developing novel biomaterials to help patients with cardiovascular disease, which greatly increases...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
13,772 Views
11 Pages

Development of a Novel, Genome Subtraction-Derived, SARS-CoV-2-Specific COVID-19-nsp2 Real-Time RT-PCR Assay and Its Evaluation Using Clinical Specimens

  • Cyril Chik-Yan Yip,
  • Chi-Chun Ho,
  • Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan,
  • Kelvin Kai-Wang To,
  • Helen Shuk-Ying Chan,
  • Sally Cheuk-Ying Wong,
  • Kit-Hang Leung,
  • Agnes Yim-Fong Fung,
  • Anthony Chin-Ki Ng and
  • Kwok-Yung Yuen
  • + 8 authors

The pandemic novel coronavirus infection, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has affected at least 190 countries or territories, with 465,915 confirmed cases and 21,031 deaths. In a containment-based strategy, rapid, sensitive and specific testing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
17,903 Views
32 Pages

COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiology, Etiology, Conventional and Non-Conventional Therapies

  • Abdur Rauf,
  • Tareq Abu-Izneid,
  • Ahmed Olatunde,
  • Anees Ahmed Khalil,
  • Fahad A. Alhumaydhi,
  • Tabussam Tufail,
  • Mohammad Ali Shariati,
  • Maksim Rebezov,
  • Zainab M. Almarhoon and
  • Kannan R. R. Rengasamy
  • + 2 authors

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which reported in an outbreak in 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The virus belongs to the beta-coronavirus class, along with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronaviru...

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