Controversy remains over whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus may have infectivity during the incubation period before the onset of symptoms. The author had the opportunity to examine the infectivity of COVID-19 during the incubation…
Besides human death economic catastrophe, which has already been started around the world due to COVID19, a question arises how to tackle the devastating nature of this pandemic. The study is basically done based on secondary sources. Time period of…
Coronaviruses (CoV) are enveloped, single-chain positive RNA viruses constituting a fairly large family. 229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1 species are common in humans, often causing mild to moderate respiratory infections. On the other hand, new…
Boala Pompe este o afecţiune neuromusculară rară, cu transmitere autosomal recesivă, datorată unui defi citenzimatic lizozomal de acid alfa glucozidază (GAA) care determină acumularea de glicogen în ţesuturi.Forma cu debut precoce, în perioada de…
SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) genome expression depends on the synthesis of a set of mRNAs, which presumably are capped at their 5' end and direct the synthesis of all viral proteins in the infected cell. Sixteen viral non-structural proteins (nsp1 to…
Despite utilizing the same chymotrypsin fold to host the catalytic machinery, coronavirus 3C-like proteases (3CLpro) noticeably differ from picornavirus 3C proteases in acquiring an extra helical domain in evolution. Previously, the extra domain was…
Te world has been grappling with the outbreak of COVID-19 for the past few months. Te coronavirus, which was frst reported in Wuhan, China has now spread to 82 countries and infected more than 95000 individuals. As of March 5, 2020, there have been…