Title:Investigation of Structural, Treatment, and Clinical Characteristics of
COVID-19 Along with the Challenges Caused by its Prevalence
Volume: 22
Issue: 1
Author(s): Maham Doagooyan, Seyedeh Hoda Alavizadeh, Javad Akhtari, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Saeed Ghanbari Hasan Kiade, Pariya Haghgoo Kochesfahani and Fatemeh Gheybi*
Affiliation:
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical
Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Keywords:
COVID-19, diagnosis, treatment, coronavirus, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2.
Abstract:
In late 2019, a report from China was published stating a disease with an unknown cause.
After that, the outbreak of the COVID-19 caused a pandemic in the world. On March 11, 2020, the
outbreak of this virus was reported in 100 countries.
The virus is currently spreading rapidly around the world. In the past, coronaviruses caused lifethreatening
diseases such as SARS and MERS in some areas of the world. Although there is still a
debate about the origin of this new coronavirus, it is most likely linked with some animals, including
bats, civet, and pangolin. In this review, we try to describe the features of the new coronavirus as well
as the recent diagnostic and therapeutic findings.