Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A literature review

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Abstract

In early December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. As of February 14, 2020, 49,053 laboratory-confirmed and 1,381 deaths have been reported globally. Perceived risk of acquiring disease has led many governments to institute a variety of control measures. We conducted a literature review of publicly available information to summarize knowledge about the pathogen and the current epidemic. In this literature review, the causative agent, pathogenesis and immune responses, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and management of the disease, control and preventions strategies are all reviewed.

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Harapan Harapan

Naoya Itoh

Amanda Yufika

Wira Winardi

Synat Keam

Heyhpeng Te

Dewi Megawati

Zinatul Hayati

Abram L. Wagner

Mudatsir Mudatsir

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Infect Public Health

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Infect Public Health

Title: Journal of Infection and Public Health

Publisher: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.

ISSN (Print): 1876-0341

ISSN (Electronic): 1876-035X

Publication date PMC-release: 8 April 2020

Publication date (Electronic): 8 April 2020

Affiliations

[a ]Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[b ]Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[c ]Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[d ]Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Japan

[e ]Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[f ]Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[g ]School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

[h ]Siem Reap Provincial Health Department, Ministry of Health, Siem Reap, Cambodia

[i ]Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Warmadewa University, Denpasar, Indonesia

[j ]Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, California, USA

[k ]Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

[l ]Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, MI 48109, USA

Author notes

[* ]Corresponding author. Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jl. T. Tanoeh Abe, Darussalam, Banda Aceh 23111, Indonesia, Tel./fax: +62 (0) 651 7551843. harapan@ 123456unsyiah.ac.id

Article

Publisher ID: S1876-0341(20)30432-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2020.03.019

PMC ID: 7142680

PubMed ID: 32340833

SO-VID: bebae001-8ce5-4d4a-a621-bf2efbb43f35

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Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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Date received : 6 March 2020

Date accepted : 29 March 2020

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