The clinical dynamics of 18 cases of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China

Lei Wang; Yong-H Gao; Li-Li Lou; Guo-Jun Zhang

doi:10.1183/13993003.00398-2020

The clinical dynamics of 18 cases of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China

Eur Respir J. 2020 Apr 23;55(4):2000398. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00398-2020. Print 2020 Apr.

Authors

Lei Wang^{1

2}, Yong-H Gao^{1

2}, Li-Li Lou¹, Guo-Jun Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
² Both authors contributed equally as first authors.

Abstract

The novel coronavirus can be transmitted from person to person with infection ranging from mild disease to severe pneumonia and radiological abnormalities on chest CT for most patients improved after RT-PCR conversion.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Child
China / epidemiology
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Coronavirus* / genetics
Coronavirus* / isolation & purification
Disease Outbreaks
Female
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging*
Lung / virology
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnostic imaging*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
RNA, Viral
Radiography, Thoracic
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

RNA, Viral