CORONAVIRUS - INFECTIOUS AGENT: AN OVERVIEW

In December 2019 a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China, with clinical presentations greatly resembling viral pneumonia. Deep sequencing analysis from lower respiratory tract samples indicated a novel coronavirus which was named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Thus far more than 800 confirmed cases including in health care workers have been identified in Wuhan and several exported cases have been confirmed in other provinces in China, and in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and the USA. The objective of this review is to provide overview of Name and morphology, Replication, Transmission, Sign and symptoms, Prevention and precautions and Diagnosis. We hope our study findings will inform the global community of the emergence of this novel coronavirus. Keywords: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Reverse Transcriptase