Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large group from the Coronaviridae family that cause a variety of diseases, from the common cold to more serious clinical conditions such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. This pathogen, which has a single chain, positive polarity and enveloped RNA viruses and c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i430194
Saber Soltani, Amir Mohammad Zakeri, Mohammad Reza Karimi, Sara Akhavan Rezayat, Fateme Zomorodi Anbaji, Alireza Tabibzadeh, Parastoo Yousefi, Armin Zakeri, Ali Jafarpour, Mehdi Norouzi, Yousef Erfani & Vahdat Poortahmasebi·Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International·2020
Background: In December 2019, the pneumonia outbreak reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. WHO introduced a novel coronavirus and the virus named Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in January 2020. There are not any specific antiviral agents...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2020/v32i730455
Aims: The COVID-19 is most recently discovered of the corona viruses which caused respiratory infections consisting of two large scale pandemics MERS & SARS and found to be zoonotic in origin. The disease started from Wuhan local seafood market in China and infected 2,761 peo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v3i430135
Since the inception of the novel Corona Virus Disease-19 in December in China, the spread has been massive leading World Health Organization to declare it a world pandemic. While epicenter of COVID-19 was Wuhan city in China mainland, Italy has been affected most due to the high...
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Research Article10.9734/jamcs/2020/v35i230252
This review aims to make clear that applying contact lenses is not a risk factor for infection by coronavirus when the users follow the rules of personal hygiene. In December 2019, a coronavirus (CoV) epidemic broke out in China, causing severe acute respiratory syndrome. Today i...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout China and gained world-wide attention as a result of acute respiratory illness due to a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), traditionally known as COVID-19. On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially an...
Sadeeq Sheshe, Abdullahi Nazifi, A. M. Labbo, G. M. Khalid, Abubakar Yahya, Umar Muhammad & Aliyu Musa Haruna·Asian Journal of Immunology·2020
Immune systems are responsible for the body’s protection against invading foreign agents that could bring harm to normal cellular activities. Viral infection is one of the significant foreign attacks on the body and the immune system has developed key mechanisms to contain such a...