COVID-19 Outbreak : An Overview

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BACKGROUND: In late December 2019, Chinese health authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, Hubei Province.

SUMMARY: A few days later, the genome of a novel coronavirus was released (http://viro-logical.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319; Wuhan-Hu-1, GenBank accession No. MN908947) and made publicly available to the scientific community. This novel coronavirus was provisionally named 2019-nCoV, now SARS-CoV-2 according to the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the Coronaviridae family, Betacoronavirus genus, subgenus Sarbecovirus. Since its discovery, the virus has spread globally, causing thousands of deaths and having an enormous impact on our health systems and economies. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge about the epidemiology, phylogenesis, homology modeling, and molecular diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2. Key Messages: Phylogenetic analysis is essential to understand viral evolution, whereas homology modeling is important for vaccine strategies and therapies. Highly sensitive and specific diagnostic assays are key to case identification, contact tracing, identification of the animal source, and implementation of control measures.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:64

Enthalten in:

Chemotherapy - 64(2019), 5-6 vom: 03., Seite 215-223

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ciotti, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Angeletti, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Minieri, Marilena [VerfasserIn]
Giovannetti, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Benvenuto, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Pascarella, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Sagnelli, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Bianchi, Martina [VerfasserIn]
Bernardini, Sergio [VerfasserIn]
Ciccozzi, Massimo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Pandemic
Phylogenesis
Protein modeling
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
Review
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 17.07.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1159/000507423

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM308451090