Pathophysiology and preventive measures to combat novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
Abstract
Novel coronavirus, which was named as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the WHO on the February 11, 2020, has rapidly increased in pandemic scale. COVID-19 is not the first severe respiratory disease outbreak caused by the coronavirus. Just in the past two decades, coronaviruses have caused three epidemic diseases, namely, SARS CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Considering the potential danger of a pandemic, scientists and physicians have been racing to understand this new virus and the pathophysiology of this disease to uncover possible treatment regimens and discover effective therapeutic agents and vaccines.References
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