Erschienen in:
26.02.2020 | COVID-19 | What's New in Intensive Care
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infections: practical considerations and management strategy for intensivists
verfasst von:
Lila Bouadma, Francois-Xavier Lescure, Jean-Christophe Lucet, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Jean-Francois Timsit
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 4/2020
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Excerpt
On December 31, 2019, China reported cases of respiratory illness in humans appearing first in Wuhan, Hubei Province, that involved a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV). This new emergency is a zoonotic disease with unknown animal reservoir and with evidence of person-to-person transmission [
1]. The basic reproductive number of this infection is estimated to be 2.2 (95% CI, 1.4–3.9) [
2]. …