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

Chih-Cheng Lai, +4 more
- 17 Feb 2020 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 3, pp 105924-105924
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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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Renal dysfunction and prognosis of COVID-19 patients: a hospital-based retrospective cohort study.

Hui Xian Xiang, +7 more
- 08 Feb 2021 - 
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that male gender, older age and hypertension were three importantly independent risk factors for renal dysfunction in COVID-19 patients, and at least one renal function marker of 3.33% patients remained abnormal in 2 weeks after discharge.
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Subcutaneous injection of IFN alpha-2b for COVID-19: an observational study

Bo Wang, +5 more
- 02 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: Subcutaneous injection of IFN alpha-2b combined with LPV/r shortened the length of hospitalization and accelerated viral clearance in COVID-19 patients, which deserves further investigation in clinical practice.
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The COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to antimicrobial resistance containment

Raspail Carrel Founou, +6 more
- 09 Jun 2021 - 
TL;DR: As of 23 April 2021, the outbreak of COVID-19 claimed around 150 million confirmed cases with over 3 million deaths worldwide as mentioned in this paper. Yet, an even more serious but silent pandemic, that of antimicrobial r...
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Might hydrogen peroxide reduce the hospitalization rate and complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Arturo Armone Caruso, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: This work presents a meta-anatomy of otolaryngology and its applications in medicine and surgery, focusing on the treatment of central giant cell granuloma and its role in wound healing.
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Case series of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in a military recruit school: clinical, sanitary and logistical implications.

Sascha J Baettig, +3 more
TL;DR: Young healthy recruits often showed a mild course of COVID-19 with rapid symptom decline but were persistent SARS-CoV-2 carriers, illustrating how asymptomatic patients may be responsible for covert viral transmission.
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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

Chaolin Huang, +28 more
- 24 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: The epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics and treatment and clinical outcomes of patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in Wuhan, China, were reported.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

Na Zhu, +18 more
- 24 Jan 2020 - 
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

Peng Zhou, +28 more
- 03 Feb 2020 - 
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.

Dawei Wang, +13 more
- 17 Mar 2020 - 
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

Nanshan Chen, +13 more
- 30 Jan 2020 - 
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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