En diciembre de 2019 surgió en China un nuevo coronavirus, conocido como SARS-CoV-2 y causante de la enfermedad COVID-19. En pocas semanas se extendió por numerosos países. El objetivo de esta revisión es describir las características de este nuevo…
The recent emergence of a new coronavirus (COVID-19) has gained a high cover in public media and worldwide news. The virus has caused a viral pneumonia in tens of thousands of people in Wuhan, a central city of China. This short paper gives a brief…
In December 26, 2019, 4 unusual cases of pneumonia were recorded in China, three of those were from the same family. Another 3 cases of pneumonia were found in the same hospital in December 28 and 29(1). The virus started to expand rapidly so that…
A Pandemia do novo Coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2) alterou os protocolos de interação social, cultural e econômica do mundo. A doença Covid-19, que é transmitida pelo contato, impôs o imediato e necessário distanciamento social para diminuir o avanço do…
In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, influenza virus remains a major threat to public health due to its potential to cause epidemics and pandemics with significant human mortality. Cases of H7N9 human infections emerged in…
La influenza es una infección viral de importancia y distribución mundial, cuyo agente causal es el Alfainfluenzavirus o influenza virus tipo A (IAV). El cual se caracteriza por poseer un genoma de tipo ssRNA segmentado, lo cual le confiere una alta…
BACKGROUND: Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, hospitals have been mandated to use infection screening questionnaires to determine which patients have infectious respiratory illness and, therefore, require isolation…