Authors: Spyros Lytras1, Wei Xia2, Joseph Hughes1, Xiaowei Jiang3, David L. Robertson1 See all authors and affiliationsScience 27 Aug 2021:Vol. 373, Issue 6558, pp. 968-970 DOI: 10.1126/science.abh0117 Although first detected in December 2019, COVID-19 was inferred to be present in Hubei province, China, for about a month before (1). Where did this new human disease come from? To understand the origin […]
Authors: By Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc.Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. In an effort to further understand and predict the health effects that can arise following infection by SARS-CoV-2, which is the infection that causes the disease COVID-19, many researchers have reevaluated the pathogenesis associated with coronaviruses that have already been identified. One type of coronavirus that has infected individuals around […]
Authors: Nizar R. Alwaqfi & Khalid S. Ibrahim Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects host cells through angiotensin converting enzyme 2 receptors, leading to coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related pneumonia, and also causing acute cardiac injury and chronic damage to the cardiovascular system. The purpose of this review is primarily reviewing the COVID-19 disease, including pathogen, […]
Authors: Joseph S.M. Peiris, M.D., D.Phil., Kwok Y. Yuen, M.D., Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, Ph.D., and Klaus Stöhr, Ph.D. The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is responsible for the first pandemic of the 21st century. Within months after its emergence in Guangdong Province in mainland China, it had affected more than 8000 patients and caused 774 deaths in 26 […]