Current status of COVID-19 pandemic; characteristics, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment

Zary Nokhodian; Mohammad Mehdi Ranjbar; Parto Nasri; Nazila Kassaian; Parisa Shoaei; Bahareh Vakili; Soodabeh Rostami; Shahrzad Ahangarzadeh; Abbas Alibakhshi; Fatemeh Yarian; Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard; Behrooz Ataei

doi:10.4103/jrms.JRMS_476_20

Current status of COVID-19 pandemic; characteristics, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment

J Res Med Sci. 2020 Nov 3:25:101. doi: 10.4103/jrms.JRMS_476_20. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Department of FMD Vaccine Production, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization, Karaj, Iran.
³ Nosocomial Infection Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
⁴ Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
⁵ Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁶ Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁷ Department of Physiology, Applied Physiology Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan. Iran.

Abstract

Humans have always been encountered to big infectious diseases outbreak throughout the history. In December 2019, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first noticed as an agent causing insidious pneumonia in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 was spread rapidly from Wuhan to the rest of the world. Until late June 2020, it infected more than 10,000,000 people and caused more than 500,000 deaths in almost all of countries in the world, creating a global crisis worse than all previous epidemics and pandemics. In the current review, we gathered and summarized the results of various studies on characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this pandemic crisis.

Keywords: COVID-19; infection; pandemic; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2.

Publication types

Review