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Coronavirus Disease Update on Epidemiology, Virology, and Prevention.

Year: 2021

Type: review

Abstract: In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as the first coronavirus-initiated pandemic. COVID-19's fast-paced global spread with a broad range of clinical manifestations compelled health regulatory organizations, public health professionals, and researchers to update their information about the disease and provide individual- and community-based guidelines, solutions, and regulations to break the disease cycle, mitigate person-to-person transmission, and reduce cross-contamination in healthcare settings. In this review, the authors provide known facts and updated information about SARS-CoV-2 virology and its new variants, transmission routes, reported clinical symptoms, epidemiology, and infection control and prevention guidelines with a focus on a hierarchy of controls in dental settings.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Sepideh Banava, Stuart A Gansky, Michael S Reddy

Institutions: University of California, San Francisco, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Language: English

Topic: Dental Research and COVID-19

Subfield: General Dentistry

Field: Dentistry

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Award: Oral and Craniofacial Sciences Health Research Training