A new viral zoonosis of global concern: coronavirus COVID-19 disease in 2019

Authors

  • D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana Autonomous University Foundation of the Americas, Technological University of Pereira, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9412-2556
  • Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Sincelejo
  • Ali A. Rabaan Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6774-9847
  • Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales Technological University of Pereira, Colombian Association of Infectology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.85

Keywords:

Colombia, rare diseases , epidemiology, epidemiological monitoring , mortality, public health
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Author Biographies

D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana, Autonomous University Foundation of the Americas, Technological University of Pereira, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases

Seedbed of Zoonosis, BIOECOS Research Group. Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences. Committee of Tropical Medicine, Zoonosis and Traveler's Medicine, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN), Bogotá.

Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Sincelejo

Committee of Tropical Medicine, Zoonosis and Traveler's Medicine. Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group. Doctorate in Tropical Medicine, University of Atlántico, Barranquilla, Atlántico.

Ali A. Rabaan, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare

Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. 

Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales, Technological University of Pereira, Colombian Association of Infectology

Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Technological University of Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda. Committee of Tropical Medicine, Zoonosis and Traveler's Medicine, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN), Bogotá. Doctorate in Tropical Medicine, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla. 

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Published

2020-02-21

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Bonilla-Aldana DK, Villamil-Gómez WE, Rabaan AA, Rodríguez-Morales AJ. A new viral zoonosis of global concern: coronavirus COVID-19 disease in 2019. Iatreia [Internet]. 2020 Feb. 21 [cited 2025 Jan. 23];33(2):107-10. Available from: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/iatreia/article/view/341260

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