At the end of 2019, a new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, was identified. This virus spread rapidly causing a disease called COVID-19. Clinical spectrum is very heterogeneous, with a...doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78021-0_7Davide Carrara
Soon after the virus was identified, many countries started making plans for treating an influx of people severely ill withcovid-19. The above image shows excavators at the construction site of Huoshenshan Hospital, built for this purpose, on 24 January 2020 in Wuhan, China – t...
Laboratory testing for COVID-19 and the associated SARS-CoV-2 virus includes methods that detect the presence of the virus (PCR technology) and those that detect antibodies produced in response to infection. Detection of antibodies (serology) can be used both for clinical purposes and population ...
Herpes labialis (cold sore) is caused by the herpes simplex virus. Cold sores commonly appear on the edge of the lip. This virus exists in a dormant state in the spinal cord nerve cells, and after certain environmental triggers like a sunburn or a cold, the virus is induced to travel ...
The name COVID-19 has been originated as ‘CO’ means ‘crown,’‘VI’ for ‘infection,’ and ‘D' for illness, and 19 representing the year of infection (2019). It is a solitary abandoned RNA virus with a size ranging from 80-120 nm and sickness caused due to this virus has ...
The term “post-COVID” means that he/she has had the virus in the past and is now awaiting a confirmation of a negative test result. All this, for just a potential exposure to COVID 2019 (COVID-19), and what we have on the polar opposite side of the coin are crowded bars, ...
Virus expansion and titre determination by TCID50 The SARS-CoV-2, hCoV-19/Sweden/20-53846/2020, B.1.1.7. variant (Alpha) has been provided by The Public Health Agency of Sweden to improve the quality of diagnostics relevant for infectious disease control, treatment and/or other studies of ...
Very little is known of this virus and it does not have a name yet. It had been temporarily named 2019-nCoV, meaning “novel coronavirus”. On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially named the new coronavirus –“COVID-19”. According to the director-general of WHO, ...
The development of COVID-19 vaccines was extremely fast and successful, with several manufacturers having obtained market authorization for their products within the first year from the identification of the virus (SARS-CoV-2). These vaccines are now used worldwide for mass immunization programs, an...
This might be the explanation for why the authorities gave information in the manner they did: repeating information, which was directed to the adult audience, on keeping distance and handwashing to avoid the virus. Giving information to children and listening to them had been on the Norwegian ...