Biological aspects of COVID-19: a scientific and didactic approach

Authors

Darlene Camati Persuhn (ed)
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA

Keywords:

COVID-19, SARS-COV-2, molecular

Synopsis

In late 2019, a group of pneumonia patients of unknown cause was identified in China. The alert for the arrival of a difficult episode in the history of the planet was lit. Analyzes were performed to isolate and identify the new coronavirus, popularized SARS-CoV-2. In a short time, due to the constant displacement of people across countries, the disease has gained terrible proportions and has already caused many fatal victims around the world, due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - SARS), caused by the new coronavirus, reaching the pandemic level. Science around the world has been working relentlessly to learn more about SARS-CoV-2, trying to find new ways to treat or protect populations as soon as possible. Scientific production regarding the disease, the causative virus and several aspects related to both has grown exponentially in the dissemination platforms. We believe that the main tasks of the academy in this moment of crisis are to produce useful and transformative scientific information and to transmit knowledge to different segments of society about the moment we live in. We believe that informed subjects are citizens aware of their role in the midst of the pandemic. This didactic material was produced by professionals from different areas of knowledge and aims to present different scientific aspects related to the virus, the disease, the natural hosts, the diagnosis, and the genetic and biochemical aspects. It can be used as a subsidy for teachers and students of high school and undergraduate courses in biological and health areas.

Chapters

  • Qual é o agente etiológico (causador) da COVID-19?
    Bruno Henrique Andrade Galvão, Gláudia Martins Balbino da Silva
  • O SARS-CoV-2 sofre mutações e apresenta diversidade genômica?
    Naila Francis Paulo de Oliveira, José Maria Chagas Viana Filho
  • Como o SARS-CoV-2 é transmitido e como pode ser evitado?
    Bruno Henrique Andrade Galvão
  • Quais são os hospedeiros naturais de SARS-Cov-2?
    Pedro Cordeiro Estrela de Andrade Pinto
  • Como nosso organismo se defende do SARS-CoV-2?
    Wallace Felipe Blohem Pessoa
  • O que sabemos sobre a COVID-19?
    Constantino Giovanni Braga Cartaxo, Temilce Simões de Assis, Eduardo Sergio Soares Sousa
  • Quais são os métodos mais utilizados para dignosticar COVID-19?
    Naila Francis Paulo de Oliveira, Cristina Wide Pissetti, Wallace Felipe Blohem Pessoa
  • Como o SARS-CoV-2 se liga às células humanas?
    Darlene Camati Persuhn, João Otávio Scarano Alcântara, Walter Barbosa Ferreira

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Published

July 19, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-85-237-1541-0