Roohi Aminjan, Atabak

Dept. of Biology, Faculty od Science, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, I.R. of Iran

[ 1 ] - Coronavirus 2 Acute respiratory syndrome: Emergence, Evolution and thrapeutic prevention strategies

The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 that began in Wuhan, China, has constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and spread all over the world. In a phylogenetic network analysis of human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) genomes, three central variants were distinguished by amino acid changes, which named A, B, and C; with A being the ancestral type a...

[ 2 ] - How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia

The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) behind the ongoing outbreak - which the World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency - was named after the family of viruses it belongs to. The term “coronavirus” may have initially been unfamiliar to many, but most everyone has encountered milder forms of such viruses, of which four strains cause about a fifth of common ...

[ 3 ] - Effects of Crowd, smoking, bacterial and fungal infections on COVID-19

The intuition that population density increases the propensity of an epidemic to spread in cities is correct in the sense that increased density likely leads to an increase in the contact rate of an individual, which makes the reproduction number larger and leads to larger infectious disease outbreaks in dense areas. A wealth of research already suggests that smoking suppresses immune function ...

Co-Authors