- SARS-CoV-2 in brief: from virus to prevention
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Hassan Karami, Zeinab Karimi, Negin Karami
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2022;13(6):394-406. Published online November 28, 2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24171/j.phrp.2022.0155
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- The recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ahighly transmissible virus with a likely animal origin, has posed major and unprecedentedchallenges to millions of lives across the affected nations of the world. This outbreak firstoccurred in China, and despite massive regional and global attempts shortly thereafter, itspread to other countries and caused millions of deaths worldwide. This review presents keyinformation about the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and its associated disease (namely,coronavirus disease 2019) and briefly discusses the origin of the virus. Herein, we also brieflysummarize the strategies used against viral spread and transmission.
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