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ReviewThe journal of gene medicine2021

COVID-19: Virology, biology and novel laboratory diagnosis.

Malihe Mohamadian, Hossein Chiti, Alireza Shoghli, Sajjad Biglari, Negin Parsamanesh, Abdolreza Esmaeilzadeh

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Review in The journal of gene medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

136 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. COVID-19 and solid organ transplantation: Finding the right balance.Transplantation reviews (Orlando, Fla.) · 2022
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  4. Associations between Serum Interleukins (IL-1BioMed research international · 2022
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  10. Remdesivir in COVID-19: pros and cons.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026
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  13. COVID-19 Infection, Drugs, and Liver Injury.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  15. Symptoms and Otorhinolaryngological Sequalae in Long Covid.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2025
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  18. FAS mediates apoptosis, inflammation, and treatment of pathogen infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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76 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Malihe MohamadianDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-6255-5376
Hossein ChitiZanjan Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Alireza ShoghliSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Sajjad BiglariSchool of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Negin ParsamaneshZanjan Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-1925-9165
Abdolreza EsmaeilzadehDepartment of Immunology, Zanjan University of Medical Science, Zanjan, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAt the end of December 2019, a novel coronavirus tentatively named SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, a central city in China, was announced by the World Health Organization. SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus that has become a major public health concern after the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (SARS-CoV) in 2002 and 2012, respectively. As of 29 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases had reached over 44 million worldwide, with more than 1.17 million confirmed deaths. DISCUSSION: SARS-CoV-2 infected patients usually present with severe viral pneumonia. Similar to SARS-CoV, the virus enters respiratory tract cells via the angiotensin-converting enzyme receptor 2. The structural proteins play an essential role in budding the virus particles released from different host cells. To date, an approved vaccine or treatment option of a preventive character to avoid severe courses of COVID-19 is still not available.

conclusionsIn the present study, we provide a brief review of the general biological features of CoVs and explain the pathogenesis, clinical symptoms and diagnostic approaches regarding monitoring future infectivity and prevent emerging COVID-19 infections.

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COVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingCRISPR-Cas SystemsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMicroarray AnalysisMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSARS-CoV-2coronavirusdiagnostic methodsgenome structurepathogenesis

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PMID33305456
PMCPMC7883242

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