Coronavirus: An emergency for healthcare professionals

Sumit Verma; S M Manjunath; Ettishree; Atul Singh; Madhulika Srivastava; Kajal Kiran Sahoo; S Vinuta; Ujwal Singh

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_462_20

Coronavirus: An emergency for healthcare professionals

J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Apr 30;9(4):1815-1819. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_462_20. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Sumit Verma¹, S M Manjunath², Ettishree³, Atul Singh⁴, Madhulika Srivastava⁵, Kajal Kiran Sahoo⁶, S Vinuta⁷, Ujwal Singh⁸

Affiliations

¹ Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Patna, Bihar, India.
² Professor and HOD, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Sehora, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
³ Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Sehora, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
⁴ Reader, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Babu Banarasi Das College of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁵ Senior Lecturer, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Babu Banarasi Das College of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁶ Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
⁷ Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, Crown, Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Sehora, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
⁸ Consultant Physician, Max Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India.

Abstract

Coronavirus infection is a transmissible disease. It was first described in China in December, 2019. It has been said to have a person-to-person transmission after prolonged and unprotected exposure. Patients with a potential SARS-CoV-2 exposure present with symptoms of low-grade pyrexia, dry cough, or shortness of breath. People with these symptoms should contact health-care providers before seeking medical intervention so that appropriate preventive actions may be implemented. Health-care facilities should rapidly isolate suspected individuals and notify local health departments for support involved in performing laboratory tests and efforts in containment. The present article describes the nature of virus, method of detection, and its mode of transmission.

Keywords: Health-care; SARS-CoV-2; novel coronavirus; symptoms; transmission.

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