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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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Investigating a serious challenge in the sustainable development process: Analysis of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (new type of Coronavirus) through a binary classification using artificial intelligence and regression analysis

TL;DR: This research work investigated the classification of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (new version of Coronavirus) using the group method of data handling (GMDH) type of neural network as one of the artificial intelligence methods and demonstrated that the relative humidity and maximum daily temperature had the highest impact on the confirmed cases.
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Prognostic value of NT-proBNP in patients with severe COVID-19.

TL;DR: NT-proBNP might be an independent risk factor for in-hospital death in patients with severe COVID-19, and was independently correlated with in- hospital death after adjustment for potential risk factors.
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Human Retinal Biopsies of Deceased COVID-19 Patients.

TL;DR: The existence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in human retina is proven according to the standards of the World-Health-Organization as detected in the retina of deceased COVID-19 patients.
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The Covid-19 'infodemic': a new front for information professionals.

TL;DR: Commenting on the role of health sciences librarians and information professionals in combating the COVID‐19 infodemic draws attention to the myth busters, fact‐checkers and credible sources relating to CO VID‐19 and documents the guides to help the general public, students and faculty recognise fake news.
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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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