COVID-19, SARS and MERS: are they closely related?

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Authors

Nicola Petrosillo · Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani

Giulio Viceconte · Federico II University Hospital

Giuseppe Ippolito · Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani

Abstract

There is still much more to know about COVID-19, especially as concerns mortality and its capacity to spread on a pandemic level. Nonetheless, all of the lessons we learned in the past from the SARS and MERS epidemics are the best cultural weapons with which to face this new global threat.

Topics & Keywords

COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 729-734

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.03.026

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