Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020.
Algorithms
Betacoronavirus
/ genetics
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections
/ diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Influenza, Human
/ diagnosis
Italy
/ epidemiology
Mass Screening
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
/ methods
Pneumonia, Viral
/ diagnosis
Population Surveillance
Respiratory Tract Infections
/ diagnosis
SARS-CoV-2
Travel
SARS-CoV-2
differential diagnosis
rapid molecular assay
respiratory pathogens
Journal
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
ISSN: 1560-7917
Titre abrégé: Euro Surveill
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 100887452
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2020
02 2020
Historique:
entrez:
5
3
2020
pubmed:
5
3
2020
medline:
19
3
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Since the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, differential diagnosis in travellers arriving from countries with wide-spread COVID-19 must include other more common infections such as influenza and other respiratory tract diseases.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32127123
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000170
pmc: PMC7055037
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
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