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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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Suitability of human settlements in mountainous areas from the perspective of ventilation: A case study of the main urban area of Chongqing

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the geographic information system spatial analysis method to quantitatively investigate the spatial variation in the suitability of human settlements in mountainous areas from the perspective of ventilation, and found that the population distribution in the main urban areas of Chongqing is affected by, in descending order, the LCI, FAI, RDLS, WRI, and LST.
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Public trust and compliance with the precautionary measures against COVID-19 employed by authorities in Saudi Arabia

TL;DR: A high level of trust was exhibited by the Saudi public in relation to the precautionary measures taken by authorities in Saudi Arabia, and gender, age, marital status, and educational level were found to be significant factors with regard to compliance with precautionary practices.
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University students online learning system during Covid-19 pandemic: Advantages, constraints and solutions

TL;DR: The result of this article is the advantage that students feel with online learning is that they can listen at home, they are not limited by the place, they can listening anytime anywhere, and they areNot limited by time or space grouped into comfortable educational themes.
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SARS-CoV-2 in sewer systems and connected facilities

TL;DR: A critical review of the state of the art regarding studies on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and sewage sludge, the factors affecting its inactivation and the main proposed treatments is proposed.
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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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