📄 Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020.

A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Since the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, differential diagnosis in travellers arriving from countries with wide-spread COVID-19 must include other more common infections such as influenza and other respiratory tract diseases.

keywords 🔗 *SARS-CoV-2 (551) 🔗 *differential diagnosis () 🔗 *rapid molecular assay () 🔗 *respiratory pathogens () 🔗 novel coronavirus (684) 🔗 respiratory tract (344)

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