Qinglin Li, 1,* Tianyi Zhang, 2,* Fei Li, 3, 4,* Zhi Mao, 1 Hongjun Kang, 1 Ling Tao, 3,* Feihu Zhou, 1, 3,* Yue Cai 1, 3, 4,* 1Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Medical Centre, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853,…
Coronaviruses (CoVs), including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and the novel coronavirus disease-2 (SARS-CoV-2) are a group of enveloped RNA viruses that cause a severe respiratory infection which…
Background: The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a newly defined serious infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The epidemic started in Wuhan, China, in December of 2019 and quickly spread to over 200 countries. It has…
Nabil Al-zoubi, Nawaf Shatnawi, Hamza Jarbo Department of General Surgery/Vascular Surgery, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, JordanCorrespondence: Nabil Al-zoubiDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of…
Camels carry Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, but little is known about infection age or prevalence. We studied >800 dromedaries of all ages and 15 mother–calf pairs. This syndrome constitutes an acute, epidemic, and time-limited…
Abstract Background A recent increase in children admitted with hypotensive shock and fever in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak requires an urgent characterization and assessment of the involvement of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This is a case series…
We describe a case of acute myocarditis which was reported as the main COVID-19 clinical manifes-tation, with a favorable outcome. In addition to symptoms, laboratory tests (BNP and troponin), echo-cardiogram and cardiac MRI contributed to diagnosis.…
We present the case of a nine-month-old male child with three days of fever, irritability, left focal seizure, and febrile focal status epilepticus. He had no history of previous comorbidities. A lumbar puncture was performed, which showed…