Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10223, 2020, Pages 507-513

  Chen, Nanshan ^a   Zhou, Min ^b   Dong, Xuan ^a   Qu, Jieming ^b   Gong, Fengyun ^a   Han, Yang ^a,c   Qiu, Yang ^c   Wang, Jingli ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Wei, Yuan ^a   Xia, Jia'an ^a   Yu, Ting ^a   Zhang, Xinxin ^b   Zhang, Li ^a  

^a Wuhan JinYinTan Hospital   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKETING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEA FOOD; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SORE THROAT; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

COVID-19;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; COUGH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85078761741     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30211-7     Document Type: Article

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