Diagnosing COVID-19: Did We Miss Anything? #MMPMID32291365
Tenda ED; Asaf MM
Acta Med Indones 2020[Jan]; 52 (1): 1-4 PMID32291365show ga
In late 2019, a mass of patients showing symptoms of a pneumonia-like disease of unknown origin emerged in Wuhan, China. Little did the world know it was the prelude of what would be a devastating pandemic. Samples were collected from these patients and the use of unbiased sequencing, and subsequent isolation of the pathogen using human airway epithelial cells led to the discovery of a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The disease caused by this virus is officially called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Acta+Med+Indones 2020 ; 52 (1): 1-4
