COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China a few months ago (December 2019) and had since become a major challenging public health problem for not only China but also many countries around the world. It was on March 11, 2020, characterized by WHO as a pandemic....
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1430586
Post-harvest losses and food shortage has remained endemic to most Sub-Saharan African communities. The reality of COVID-19 in these countries has unfurled the weakness of agricultural sector in containing long lasting effect of such natural disaster. In most developed countries,...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2020/v26i730284
COV-19, HIV/AIDS, Flu H1N1 and many other zoonotic diseases are emergent during Anthropocene epoch due to climatic anomalies. Bacteria’s, viruses, pathogens are associated with human cause zoonoses mainly resulting from domestication. Minimum 61% of human pathogens are zoonotic c...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i930271
Background: Since the confirmation of the index case of Covid-19 on the 27th of February in Nigeria, the spread from Lagos to other parts of the country has been on the climb without a plateau in sight. Objective: To characterize and present epidemiological trends of Covid-19 pan...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2630899
The Outbreak of the COVID-19 had presented an unprecedented threat to the global economy. The contemporary disease is spreading exponentially across the continent of Africa and the pandemic has been felt in all the countries of Africa. In this study we examined the effects of the...
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Research Article10.9734/jemt/2020/v26i630265
Aim: Forecasting the prevalence of the disease is important for health departments to strengthen surveillance systems and reallocate resources. The aim of this study is to assess the occurrence of COVID-19 in Alkharj, Saudi Arabia. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study th...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2020/v32i2030740
As a part of global health care system we are now facing an unprecedented increase in the number of COVID positive patients. While the SARS-CoV2 continues to expand its reach, newer information gets reported every day. The phenomenon of acro-ischemia in patients testing positive...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1430562
The Anthropocene has succeeded the 11700 years old Holocene epoch from 1945. Biological annihilation about 6th mass extinction from Holocene to present is well marked but less documented though the human dominance over bio-geo-hydro spheres has been established. IUCN is the foota...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2430869
Background: Molecular docking has been used recently in pharma industry for drug designing, it’s a powerful tool to find ligand-substrate interactions at molecules level. Since urgent need to develop anti-viral drug that target new coronavirus main proteins, in silico docking has...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i830260
The battle against the pandemic novel coronavirus infection (namely COVID-19) that gravely hurts human health is a global mission for all humanity. Currently, there are no specific COVID-19 therapies; immune-suppressors as corticosteroids, protease inhibitor antivirals, monoclona...
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Research Article10.9734/sajrm/2020/v7i230169
Aims: Corona virus SARS-CoV-2, otherwise known as COVID-19 has created a pandemic resulting in social and financial crisis throughout the world. The virus has no known drugs or vaccines for preventive or therapeutic purposes. The objective of the present study was to screen phyto...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v4i430152
Introduction: The world is suffering a major global health pandemic caused by a new strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Herein, we encountered one case with COVID-19 and chronic HCV while on Direct Acting Antiviral Therapy. Case Presentation: A 58-year male patient had chronic...
Aims: This study examined the impact of the lockdown measure on the confirmed cases of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria. The objectives of the study include to identifying an appropriate autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model that is adequate for estim...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2020/v26i630276
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2, originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019 has created a massive pandemic; the disease manifested by the virus was named as COVID-19 by World Health Organization. It has appeared as an unprecedented threat against the global healt...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130825
COVID-19 can present in many ways that need to be recognized early, to protect the medical staff from exposure/infection, by isolation of affected patients. We report a case, who presented with acute abdominal pain and on investigations was found to have features of acute appendi...