tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Int J Clin Pract. 2020 Apr 16. doi: 10.1111/ijcp.13518. [Epub ahead of print]
Estimation of basic reproduction number for COVID-19 and the reasons for its differences.
Najafimehr H[SUP]1[/SUP], Mohamed Ali K[SUP]2[/SUP], Safari S[SUP]3[/SUP], Yousefifard M[SUP]4[/SUP], Hosseini M[SUP]1[/SUP].
Author information
Abstract
The novel coronavirus pneumonia is an acute respiratory disease. In December 2019, this disease emerged in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government called it SARS-CoV-2 which was subsequently named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) [1]. In January 2020, WHO confirmed it as a sustained human to human disease [2]. By March 2020, COVID-19 had been transmitted round the world rapidly and every day large number of new cases were registered. COVID-19 is a leaped type of coronavirus family such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that has been transmitted from wild animals to human [3].
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PMID:32301199DOI:10.1111/ijcp.13518
Estimation of basic reproduction number for COVID-19 and the reasons for its differences.
Najafimehr H[SUP]1[/SUP], Mohamed Ali K[SUP]2[/SUP], Safari S[SUP]3[/SUP], Yousefifard M[SUP]4[/SUP], Hosseini M[SUP]1[/SUP].
Author information
Abstract
The novel coronavirus pneumonia is an acute respiratory disease. In December 2019, this disease emerged in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government called it SARS-CoV-2 which was subsequently named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) [1]. In January 2020, WHO confirmed it as a sustained human to human disease [2]. By March 2020, COVID-19 had been transmitted round the world rapidly and every day large number of new cases were registered. COVID-19 is a leaped type of coronavirus family such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that has been transmitted from wild animals to human [3].
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PMID:32301199DOI:10.1111/ijcp.13518