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. 2020 Jan;52(1):1-4.

Diagnosing COVID-19: Did We Miss Anything?

Eric Daniel Tenda  1 , Moses Mazmur Asaf
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  • PMID: 32291365
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Diagnosing COVID-19: Did We Miss Anything?

Eric Daniel Tenda et al. Acta Med Indones. 2020 Jan.
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Abstract

In late 2019, a mass of patients showing symptoms of a pneumonia-like disease of unknown origin emerged in Wuhan, China. Little did the world know it was the prelude of what would be a devastating pandemic. Samples were collected from these patients and the use of unbiased sequencing, and subsequent isolation of the pathogen using human airway epithelial cells led to the discovery of a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The disease caused by this virus is officially called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Keywords: Internal Medicine; Respirology.

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