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COVID-19 is a novel, or new, coronavirus (World Health Organization (WHO), 2020). Coronaviruses are named after the crown-like spikes that cover their surface (Centers for Disease Control, 2019), and...
To cause disease in an animal, including humans, viruses require host specificity, which dictates the reservoir and host susceptibility to invasion. Influenza and coronaviruses enter the human body...
Given the importance of the ACE-2 receptor in COVID-19 pathogenesis, an understanding of the expression of the ACE-2 receptor helps explain some of the effects of COVID-19. The ACE-2 receptor is...
The global and national restrictive measures in place to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and to prevent the excessive demand for secondary and specialist life support include closures of...
The number of survivors from ICU admissions is growing (Kondakci et al, 2018). Prescott and Girard (2020) found that 80% of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and 60% who were admitted to ICU...
Zoonoses may be bacterial, viral or parasitic and are defined as any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from a vertebrate species to humans (WHO, 2020). Zoonoses, as with many...
Undergraduate dental training in the UK is a 5-year mixed academic and clinical medical programme, with dentists graduating with the principal skills required to be safe clinicians. Although the...
In early April 2020, the number of confirmed cases in this pandemic was well over 1 million people worldwide, and this figure is continuing to rise on a daily basis (Johns Hopkins University and...
British Journal of Community Nursing provides clinical education dedicated to nursing in the home. Our goal is to help you develop your skills, improve your practice and manage cases more effectively.
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Focus on elderly care and long-term conditions
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