Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: From transmission to control with an interdisciplinary vision.

Autor: Anand U; Department of Life Sciences, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel., Cabreros C; Environmental Engineering Program, National Graduate School of Engineering, University of the Philippines, 1101, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines., Mal J; Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004, Uttar Pradesh, India., Ballesteros F Jr; Environmental Engineering Program, National Graduate School of Engineering, University of the Philippines, 1101, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines; Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of the Philippines, 1101, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines., Sillanpää M; Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Viet Nam; Faculty of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Viet Nam; School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa., Tripathi V; Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, 211007, Uttar Pradesh, India. Electronic address: vijay.tripathi@shiats.edu.in., Bontempi E; INSTM and Chemistry for Technologies, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy. Electronic address: elza.bontempi@unibs.it.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental research [Environ Res] 2021 Jun; Vol. 197, pp. 111126. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111126
Abstrakt: There a lot of review papers addressing specific COVID-19 research sectors, then devoted to specialists. This review provides an in-depth summary of the available information about SARS-CoV-2 and the corresponding disease (also known as COVID-19), with a multi-disciplinary approach. After the paper introduction, the first section treats the virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2, the medical implications of the infection, and the human susceptivity. Great attention is devoted to the factor affecting the infection routes, distinguishing among the possible human-to-human, environmental-to-human, and pollution-to-human transmission mechanisms. The second section is devoted to reporting the impact of SARS-CoV-2 not only on the healthcare systems but also on the economy and society. The third section is devoted to non-pharmaceutical behaviours against COVID-19. In this context, this review section presents an analysis of the European second wave allowing not only to focalize the importance of some restrictions, but also the relevance of social acceptance of some measures. The data reassumed in this work are very useful for interdisciplinary researchers that work in a team to find the basic available information about all the aspects connected with this pandemic (from virus diffusion mechanism to health information, from economic and social impacts to measures to reduce the pandemic spread), with great attention to social acceptance of restriction measures and of vaccines (that currently results to be insufficient to achieve community immunity). Then, this review paper highlights the fundamental role of the trans-multi-disciplinary research that is devoted not only to understand the basics of the pandemic to propose solutions but has also the commitment to find strategies to increase population resilience. For this aim, the authors strongly suggest the establishment of an international health-care trans-multi-disciplinary workforce devoted to investigate, mitigate, and control also future viral events.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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