Coronavirus 2020
Angélica Gonçalves Silva Belasco, Cassiane Dezoti da Fonseca
Abstract
Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are c onstant challenges for public health worldwide. Recent cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China, have led to the discovery of a new type of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which are enveloped RNA viruses, commonly found in humans, other mammals and birds, capable of causing respiratory, enteric, hepatic, and neurological diseases
Topics & Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirusBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsVirologyMedicineInternal medicineOutbreakDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesCOVID-19 epidemiological studies