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Medicentro Electrónica

On-line version ISSN 1029-3043

Abstract

BONILLA SEPULVEDA, Oscar Alejandro. Understanding the COVID-19. Medicentro Electrónica [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.3, pp.595-629.  Epub July 01, 2020. ISSN 1029-3043.

Introduction:

SARS-CoV-2 was recently isolated from human airway epithelial cells in January 2020. This virus has caused a pandemic that challenges the global public health infrastructure.

Objective:

to review the available bibliography on COVID-19.

Methods:

a systematic review of publications in Medline and PubMed databases was performed using the following key words: COVID-19, COVID-2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, 2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV, Wuhan, and coronavirus.

Conclusions:

there were selected forty-two publications which were important to understand the pathogenic characteristics of COVID-19 in the context of the pandemic declared by the World Health Organization.

Keywords : coronavirus infections; SARS virus; review literature as topic.

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