Physiological and clinical aspects in COVID-19

There is a new public health crises threatening globally with the emergence and spread of 2019 novel corona virus (COVID-19) or the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In very recent decade we have seen endemic outbreaks in the form of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome related coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Now we again see the emergence of another serious outbreak due to a new strain called the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This SARS-CoV-2 initially presented as pneumonia of unknown etiology with group of symptoms including fever, dry cough and shortness of breath in a cluster of patients in December 2019 Wuhan, China. COVID-19 now has quickly became a health emergency now across worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 is a newly emerging human infectious corona virus that causes COVID-19, now this has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11th March, 2020. Because of the pathogenesis and proliferation pathways of COVID-19 are still unknown the development of vaccine was not developed yet and definitive treatment was not implemented. Therefore, in this article, new potential COVID-19 therapies are briefly reviewed. The world is in emergent need for searching of possible medications for COVID-19..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

RUDN Journal of Medicine - 24(2020), 3, Seite 201-206

Sprache:

Englisch ; Russisch

Beteiligte Personen:

R. Kodidala Satyanath [VerfasserIn]
J. Sorout [VerfasserIn]
S. Jayachandra [VerfasserIn]
A. Gandhi [VerfasserIn]
S. Kacker [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Corona virus
Covid-19
Medicine
Mers cov
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Sars-cov
Therapies

doi:

10.22363/2313-0245-2020-24-3-201-206

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DOAJ009094482