Mar 11, 2020 by News Staff

An analysis of data on infections from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel human coronavirus that causes the respiratory...

Mar 5, 2020 by News Staff

Radiologists from Wuhan, China found that chest CT had a low rate of missed diagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9%, 2/51) and may be useful as a standard method for...

Mar 4, 2020 by News Staff

Chest CT, a routine imaging tool for pneumonia diagnosis, had higher sensitivity for diagnosis of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease as compared with initial...

Feb 27, 2020 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Alberta and Gilead Sciences, Inc. have discovered that the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir is effective in treating...

Feb 20, 2020 by News Staff

Researchers have made a breakthrough toward developing a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, by creating the first 3D atomic...

Feb 19, 2020 by News Staff

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is closely related to the COVID-19 coronavirus (also known as SARS-CoV-2 and 2019-nCoV) that has...

Feb 17, 2020 by News Staff

In a review of previous studies, a team of researchers from Sweden, Germany and China found the average reproduction number (R0) for the COVID-19 coronavirus...

Feb 11, 2020 by News Staff

According to a review of previous studies, published online February 6, 2020 in the Journal of Hospital Infection, human coronaviruses such as Severe Acute...

Feb 10, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, the Queen’s Medical Research Institute Edinburgh, and Roslin...

Feb 10, 2020 by News Staff

Even patients with mild symptoms are capable of transmitting the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, according to a team of scientists from the Charité-Universitätsmedizin...

Feb 6, 2020 by News Staff

In a retrospective case series, an international team of radiologists has reviewed chest CT scans of 21 symptomatic patients from China infected with the...

Feb 3, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

On January 24, 2020, the French Ministry of Health announced three cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus in France. On January 29, a team of researchers from...

Feb 3, 2020 by News Staff

In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina has analyzed the potential receptor usage by...

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

As of January 25, 2020, up to 75,800 individuals in Wuhan, Hubei province, China — the epicenter of the outbreak of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus —...

Jan 31, 2020 by The Conversation

As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...

Jan 30, 2020 by The Conversation

Cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how contagious the virus is and how it spreads....

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) in Melbourne, Australia, has successfully grown the...

Jan 27, 2020 by News Staff

The current outbreak of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, a rapidly flourishing capital city of the Hubei province and the traffic hub of central China, was caused...