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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges.

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Among patients with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus pneumonia or Wuhan pneumonia), fever was the most common symptom, followed by cough, and bilateral lung involvement with ground-glass opacity was themost common finding from computed tomography images of the chest.
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This article is published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.The article was published on 2020-02-17 and is currently open access. It has received 4318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pneumonia & Outbreak.

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Efficient deep neural networks for classification of COVID-19 based on CT images: Virtualization via software defined radio

TL;DR: In this paper, ResNet-50, VGG-16, convolutional neural network (CNN), CNN, Convolutional Auto-Encoder Neural Network (CAENN), and machine learning (ML) methods are proposed for classifying Chest CT Images of COVID-19.
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Supplementation with vitamin D in the COVID-19 pandemic?

TL;DR: The postulated mechanisms and clinical data supporting the protective role of vitamin’D against COVID-19–mediated complications are discussed and epidemiologic studies of the relationship between vitamin D and various respiratory infections were reviewed.
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Acute food insecurity and short-term coping strategies of urban and rural households of Bangladesh during the lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic of 2020: report of a cross-sectional survey.

TL;DR: Both urban and rural households suffered from moderate to severe food insecurity during the month-long lockdown period in Bangladesh, but, poorest, poorer and even the richer households adopted different coping strategies that might result in long-term economic and nutritional consequences.
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Knowledge management based on information technology in response to COVID-19 crisis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a crisis management approach to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is imperative that healthcare organizations conduct crisis management (CM) to deal with this calamity.
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COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019): A new coronavirus disease

TL;DR: 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.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

TL;DR: Identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China, and it is shown that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV, indicates that the virus is related to a bat coronav virus.
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Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

TL;DR: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and hospital-associated transmission as the presumed mechanism of infection for affected health professionals and hospitalized patients are described.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

TL;DR: Characteristics of patients who died were in line with the MuLBSTA score, an early warning model for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia, and further investigation is needed to explore the applicability of the Mu LBSTA scores in predicting the risk of mortality in 2019-nCoV infection.
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