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Journal Article
COVID-19 in Latin America: Novel transmission dynamics for a global pandemic?
2020
Overview
The LAC outbreak appears to be about two weeks behind the United States and Canada and about three to four weeks behind Western Europe. [...]the global COVID-19 pandemic is entering a new phase, not only expanding beyond primarily temperate Northern Hemisphere countries into the tropics but also spreading to a geopolitical region marked by significantly worse poverty, water access and sanitation, and distrust in public governance (Fig 1). While seasonal influenza does vary with temperature and humidity in LAC, the region’s environmental heterogeneity causes peaks in influenza transmission to be asynchronous across the region [5]. [...]molecular modeling suggests that the COVID-19 (like MERS and SARS) uses the angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2), which is highly expressed in both lung and some intestinal epithelial tissues [11] as its host receptor. During the 1991 cholera epidemic in Peru, cholera spread nearby instantaneously from a single town to nearly communities along the Peruvian coast with attack rates over 2% in just the first month of the epidemic [17]. Because cholera is often transmitted via contaminated stored water and food, up to half of all family members show signs of infection within two days of the presentation of an index case [18].
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Analysis
/ Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
/ Cholera
/ Clinical Laboratory Techniques
/ Coronavirus - isolation & purification
/ Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis
/ Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
/ Coronavirus Infections - transmission
/ COVID-19
/ Ecology and Environmental Sciences
/ Feces
/ Humans
/ Humidity
/ Hygiene
/ Latin America - epidemiology
/ Lungs
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Middle East respiratory syndrome
/ Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis
/ Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
/ Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
/ Poverty
/ Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
/ Travel
/ Viruses
