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Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents.

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Human coronaviruses can persist on inanimate surfaces like metal, glass or plastic for up to 9 days, but can be efficiently inactivated by surface disinfection procedures with 62–71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within 1 minute.
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This article is published in Journal of Hospital Infection.The article was published on 2020-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2859 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coronavirus & Middle East respiratory syndrome.

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SFED recommendations for IBD endoscopy during COVID-19 pandemic: Italian and French experience.

TL;DR: Recommendations regarding the use of personal protective equipment to prevent COVID-19 transmission are proposed and different scenarios in endoscopic IBD management are evaluated to suggest when endoscopy could be rescheduled and replaced by alternative biomarkers.
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Novel Coronavirus: What Neuroradiologists as Citizens of the World Need to Know.

TL;DR: The World Health Organization has labeled the disease Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is spreading rapidly and has been identified as SARS-CoV-2.
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Dental care access and the elderly: What is the role of teledentistry? A systematic review

TL;DR: The implementation of Teledentistry in residential aged care facilities and in home-assistance programs could be a viable tool for the management of oral care in people who cannot access dental care.
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Infection Prevention Precautions for Routine Anesthesia Care During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

TL;DR: An approach to routine anesthesia care in the setting of persistent but variable prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection is recommended and specific recommendations for personal protective equipment and for the conduct of anesthesia procedures and workflow are made based on evidence and expert opinion.
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Applicability of Mobile Contact Tracing in Fighting Pandemic (COVID-19): Issues, Challenges and Solutions.

TL;DR: An Evaluation framework for mobile contact tracing solutions is proposed to determine their usability, feasibility, scalability and effectiveness, and some of the already proposed contact tracing Solutions are evaluated in light of the proposed framework.
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SARS and MERS: recent insights into emerging coronaviruses

TL;DR: The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012 marked the second introduction of a highly pathogenic coronav virus into the human population in the twenty-first century, and the current state of development of measures to combat emerging coronaviruses is discussed.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019–COVID-19

TL;DR: Analysis of epidemiological, diagnostic, clinical, and therapeutic aspects, including perspectives of vaccines and preventive measures that have already been globally recommended to counter this pandemic virus, suggest that this novel virus has been transferred from an animal source, such as bats.
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The Effects of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Viability of the SARS Coronavirus

TL;DR: The better stability of SARS coronavirus at low temperature and low humidity environment may facilitate its transmission in community in subtropical area during the spring and in air-conditioned environments, which may explain why some Asian countries in tropical area did not have major community outbreaks of Sars.
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Effects of Air Temperature and Relative Humidity on Coronavirus Survival on Surfaces

TL;DR: TGEV and MHV could serve as conservative surrogates for modeling exposure, the risk of transmission, and control measures for pathogenic enveloped viruses, such as SARS-CoV and influenza virus, on health care surfaces.
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