Open Access<p>COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019): A New Coronavirus Disease</p>
Author(s) -
Amin Sadeghi Dousari,
Majid Taati Moghadam,
Naghmeh Satarzadeh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s259279
Subject(s) - pandemic , coronavirus , covid-19 , outbreak , virology , pneumonia , public health , disease , medicine , epidemiology , virus , betacoronavirus , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
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.