This chapter aims to answer the following questions regarding the incubation period of COVID-19. Why is understanding the incubation period of COVID-19 important? How long is the incubation time, and what are the associating factors? How should the incubation period be modeled given the current...
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained convincing research ground as a new research topic in a wide variety of academic and industrial di
Since the reports from the 1980’s, the use of ribavirin in NHP models of LASV have been lacking and the effectiveness of ribavirin in either NHPs or humans is difficult to determine due to the long incubation period of the virus, and other variables such as infecting strain, dose, and ...
314 “suspected” COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China, 44,672 (61.8%) were diagnosed to have COVID-19. Among the “suspected” and confirmed COVID-19 subjects, only 889 (1.2%) were asymptomatic. It is important to
Novel: a novel form of a disease means it is new. Before it had an official name, COVID-19 was referred to as a novel coronavirus because the strain hadn’t been seen in humans before. Epidemic: an increase in the number of disease cases beyond what is normally expected. Often the in...
Zhiqiang Xiao3, Kaiyan Ye4, Xiaoen He2, Bo Sun1, Zhiran Qin2, Jianghai Yu2, Jinxiu Yao5, Qinghua Wu2, Zhang Bao2* and Wei Zhao2* Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection has spread rapidly across the world and become an international public healt...
Recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world dramatically, posing profound challenges to our healthcare infrastructure, economic systems, social and cultural life but also to our freedom. What this pandemic made us realize so far, is that, despite the tremendous advances in medi...
The impact of anti-COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on hand, foot, and mouth disease-A spatiotemporal perspective in Xi'an, northwestern China. J Med Virol. 2022;94(7):3121–32. 31. Head JR, Collender PA, Lewnard JA, Skaff NK, Li L, Cheng Q, Baker JM, Li C, Chen D, ...
[16,17]. Laboratory confirmation of measles virus infection is essential at this time, as there are several infections in the differential diagnosis, some of which are also on the rise in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era (Table 1) [10]. The treatment of measles is mainly supportive, and ...
Furthermore, since lungs function as an important barrier between the internal and the external environments, they are a critical site for bacterial and viral infections and disease transmission; particularly relevant given the current COVID-19 pandemic. There is, therefore, a critical need to ...