Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): From causes to preventions in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has been recently attacked by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). In late January 2020, it's shown a steadily increasing trend of confirmed cases. There is a 257 in total infected cases confirmed including 4 deaths until 20th of March 2020. To prevent further outbreak of COVID-19, this article discusses the current understanding of COVID-19 and compares with the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in 2003 of Hong Kong from the causes, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and preventions to study for an applicable measurement to control COVID-19..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:94

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 94(2020), Seite 156-163

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Siukan Law [VerfasserIn]
Albert Wingnang Leung [VerfasserIn]
Chuanshan Xu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Causes
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)
Diagnosis
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Symptoms
Transmission

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.059

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ069281254