Open AccessCOVID-19: an updated review
Author(s) -
Ф. А. Исихак,
М. А. Хамад,
Nasir Mustafa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infekciâ i immunitet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.137
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2313-7398
pISSN - 2220-7619
DOI - 10.15789/2220-7619-cau-1443
Subject(s) - genome , biology , virology , rna dependent rna polymerase , coronavirus , covid-19 , disease , computational biology , contagious disease , rna , transmissibility (structural dynamics) , genetics , gene , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , vibration , physics , pathology , vibration isolation , quantum mechanics
COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease that showed higher levels of transmissibility in humans. Coronavirus has the largest recognized genome (28–33 kb) of a positive-sense single stranded RNA. The genome composed of 5′-end, the translationable mRNA sequences for the key proteins; replicase, spike, envelop membrane, and nucleocapsid and 3′-end (polyA tail). This highly contagious virus may impair the immune system in the early phase of the disease, hence the symptoms of the disease appear very rapidly. Importantly until now, there is no efficient strategy for containing the disease. So, all the world scientists today are in a race against time to find a vaccine or treatment to COVID-19, which requires a deeper understanding.