COVID-19: Probable involvement of insects in the mechanical transmission of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Microbes and Infectious Diseases /Microbes and Infectious Diseases

Rine Reuben, Silas Gyar, Margaret Danladi

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9

References:

36

Abstract

Currently, the world is faced with a novel human coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused by a zoonotic, enveloped, single-stranded RNA novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) causing severe human respiratory tract infections. Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and other related coronaviruses had been reported to be mechanically transmitted by insects, no report has so f...

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Keywords

Transmission (telecommunications)

Coronavirus

Pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Virology

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Betacoronavirus

Biology

Coronaviridae

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Medicine

Disease

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pathology

Outbreak

Electrical engineering

Engineering

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Good health and well-being

2020

Article

Open Access

Institution

Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, Nigeria.,

Department of Microbiology, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria,

Department of Microbiology, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria

2-Y Citation Average

0.484

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21608/mid.2020.41443.1059

Language

en

Country

Nigeria