TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV
T2 - Could this virus become a possible global pandemic
AU - Letchumanan, Vengadesh
AU - Mutalib, Nurul Syakima Ab
AU - Goh, Bey-Hing
AU - Lee, Learn-Han
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by PVC Award Grant (Project No. PVC-ECR-2016), External Industry Grant (Biotek Abadi – Vote No. GBA-808138 and GBA-808813) awarded to L-HL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by Letchumanan V et al.
PY - 2020/2/6
Y1 - 2020/2/6
N2 - In December 2019, the emerging of a new coronavirus-induced pneumonia created a distress among people in China and the international community. This virus was identified as novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. At the time this Review went to press, the virus has spread to across 27 countries, infecting 17,488 people and caused 362 deaths. The transmission of 2019-nCoV to individuals of different countries is predominantly through close contact with an infected person. Based on the available data, there is a rising trend of infected and death cases. At this point, there is no specific drug or vaccine to treat infected patients besides supportive care. Nevertheless, researchers and doctors around the world have reported the success of using existing antiviral drugs to treat patients.
AB - In December 2019, the emerging of a new coronavirus-induced pneumonia created a distress among people in China and the international community. This virus was identified as novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. At the time this Review went to press, the virus has spread to across 27 countries, infecting 17,488 people and caused 362 deaths. The transmission of 2019-nCoV to individuals of different countries is predominantly through close contact with an infected person. Based on the available data, there is a rising trend of infected and death cases. At this point, there is no specific drug or vaccine to treat infected patients besides supportive care. Nevertheless, researchers and doctors around the world have reported the success of using existing antiviral drugs to treat patients.
KW - 2019-nCoV
KW - global pandemic
KW - Novel Coronavirus
KW - supportive care
KW - treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101196019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.36877/pmmb.a0000068
DO - 10.36877/pmmb.a0000068
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101196019
VL - 3
JO - Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology
JF - Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology
SN - 2637-1049
IS - 1
M1 - a0000068
ER -
