The stethoscope: a potential vector for COVID-19?

Ammonium Chloride as a Potential Candidate for the Treatment and Controlling of Covid-19

Coronaviruses, pathogens with a zoonotic potential, are positive sense single-stranded RNA viruses. SARS Coronavirus-2, the cause of Covid-19 infection, is from the betacoronavirinea subfamily, which has close genomic and proteomic similarity to SARS Coronavirus-1(1). Given the genomic proximity of these two viruses, studies on SARS Coronavirus-1 can be used to control or detect SARS Coronaviru...

The stethoscope - a vector of infection?

The Stethoscope— A Vector of Infection? To the Editor: In the course of investigating a hospital-wide outbreak of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 67 physicians' stethoscopes were cultured. Both the bell and the diaphragm were sampled with a sterile cotton swab, and this was immediately streaked onto Columbia Nutrient Agar (BBL), a selective medium for grampositive organisms. The ca...

Therapeutic potential of Paclitaxel against COVID-19

The coronavirus disease-2019(COVID-19) was reported in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019 and soon became the most serious global health challenge due to high rate of human-to-human transmission. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2), is a single-stranded RNA virus and belongs to the large Coronaviridae family. Paclitaxel, an antineoplastic drug extracted from the Tax...

COVID-19: A New Virus as a Potential Rapidly Spreading in the Worldwide

Covid-19 is a novel virus with high affinity to spread in the community. In December 2019, it was first identified in Wuhan, China. The symptoms are non-specific, so fever, cough, dyspnea, are prominent features. Respiratory failure and mortality have also been reported. The most common lung CT scan findings are bilateral ground glass opacities.

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