TY - JOUR TI - Coronaviruses and SARS-COV-2 AB - Coronaviruses (CoVs) cause a broad spectrum of diseases in domestic and wild animals, poultry, and rodents, ranging frommild to severe enteric, respiratory, and systemic disease, and also cause the common cold or pneumonia in humans. Seven coronavirusspecies are known to cause human infection, 4 of which, HCoV 229E, HCoV NL63, HCoV HKU1 and HCoV OC43, typically causecold symptoms in immunocompetent individuals. The others namely SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus),MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) were zoonotic in origin and cause severe respiratory illness and fatalities.On 31 December 2019, the existence of patients with pneumonia of an unknown aetiology was reported to WHO by the nationalauthorities in China. This virus was officially identified by the coronavirus study group as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease was labelled coronavirus disease 19(COVID-19). COVID-19’s first cases were seen in Turkey on March 10, 2020 and was number 47,029 cases and 1006 deaths after 1month. Infections with SARS-CoV-2 are now widespread, and as of 10 April 2020, 1,727,602 cases have been confirmed in more than210 countries, with 105,728 deaths. AU - HASOKSÜZ, MUSTAFA AU - KILIÇ, Selçuk AU - SARAC, Fahriye DO - 10.3906/sag-2004-127 PY - 2020 JO - Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences VL - 50 IS - 3 SN - 1300-0144 SP - 549 EP - 556 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/333900 ER -