Open AccessLaboratory testing COVID-19
Author(s) -
Gehanath Baral
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pathology of nepal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2091-0797
pISSN - 2091-0908
DOI - 10.3126/jpn.v10i1.29172
Subject(s) - pandemic , coronavirus , covid-19 , virology , medicine , virus , epidemiology , transmission (telecommunications) , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , outbreak , computer science , telecommunications
In an ongoing pandemic it is critical to track the virus, understand pathogenesis and epidemiology, manage the cases and suppress transmission that requires effective laboratory testing. In December 2019, a cluster of patients with a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China. Initially tentatively named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the virus has now been named SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). This virus can cause the disease named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).