Author:
YAVARIAN Jila,SHAFIEI-JANDAGHI Nazanin-Zahra,SADEGHI Kaveh,SHATIZADEH MALEKSHAHI Somayeh,SALIMI Vahid,NEJATI Ahmad,AJAMINEJAD Fatemeh,GHAVVAMI Nastaran,SAADATMAND Fatemeh,MAHFOUZI Saeedeh,FATEMINASAB Ghazal,PARHIZGARI Najmeh,RAZAVI Kobra,GHABESHI Soad,SABERIAN Mostafa,ZANJANI Elham,NAMAZI Fatemeh,SHAHBAZI Tayebeh,REZAIE Farshid,ERFANI Hossein,GOUYA Mohammad Mehdi,NASR DADRAS Mohammad,MOKHTARI AZAD Talat
Abstract
In Jan 2020, the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China spread increasingly to other countries worldwide which WHO declared it as a public health emergency of international concern. Iran was included in the affected countries. Throat swab specimens were collected and tested by using real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) kit targeting the E region for screening and RNA dependent RNA polymerase for confirmation. Conventional RT-PCR was conducted for the N region and the PCR products were sequenced by Sanger sequencing. The first seven cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections were identified in Qom, Iran. This report describes the clinical and epidemiological features of the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 confirmed in Iran. Future research should focus on finding the routes of transmission for this virus, including the possibility of transmission from foreign tourists to identify the possible origin of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Iran.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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