Abstract
Clinical-epidemiological and evolutionary aspects in the first 20 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, hospitalized in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Clinical Hospital „Dr. Victor Babes“
Highlights
Coronaviruses belong to the family Coronaviridae, of the order Nidovirales, are viruses with a positive RNA genome, enveloped, and glycoprotein projections at this level suggest the appearance of halo or „crown” visible on electron microscopy [1]
From an epidemiological point of view, 8 patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning to Romania from Germany 2 patients, from London 2 patients, and 1 patient from Israel, Spain, Austria, Norway
The other 12 patients were healthcare workers at Gerota Hospital, where a patient recently returned from a trip to Israel was hospitalized with symptoms not characteristic of COVID-19, but which later progressed to severe pneumonia
Summary
Coronaviruses belong to the family Coronaviridae, of the order Nidovirales, are viruses with a positive RNA genome, enveloped, and glycoprotein projections at this level suggest the appearance of halo or „crown” visible on electron microscopy [1]. Severe forms may include respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, multiple organ failure/dysfunction [5]
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