Meet the editor

Manal Mohammad Baddour is a Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt. She obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the same university in 1995. Dr. Baddour was ranked first among high school examinees in Saudi Arabia in 1979. She has also been listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World 2009 and in the Academic Keys Who's Who list for Med-

icine Higher Education. She has held several positions including secretary general of the Permanent Scientific Committee for Promotion of Professors and Associate Professors in Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Egypt. She is also an editor and reviewer for numerous scientific journals. She has edited or authored several books and has thirty-six journal publications to her credit. She is an assessor for promotion files of faculty members from Egyptian, Jordanian, and Saudi Arabian universities. Dr. Baddour is a member of several organizations including the Gerson Lehrman Group for Healthcare & Biomedical Council; Society for General Microbiology, England; Egyptian Society for Medical Microbiology; Egyptian Association of Immunologists; Egyptian Society for Infection Control; Egyptian Medical Syndicate; Alexandria Medical Syndicate Council; African Association of Physiological Sciences, South Africa; and African Regional Training Network for Medical and Allied Health Sciences, South Africa.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Maanasa Rajagopalan*

*and Pamela Claudia Laguna Laura*

(SARS-Cov-2)

**Section 2**

**Preface XIII**

The Virus and Epidemiology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 89**

Manifestations of Disease **111**

**Chapter 7 113**

COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Statistics of Confirmed Cases *by Vicente Enrique Machaca Arceda, Miguel Angel Machaca Arceda* 

Demographic, Clinical and Radiological Features of Healthcare Workers and Two Index Cases That Were Infected with COVID-19

*by Ayse Erturk, Ugur Kostakoglu, Ilknur Esen Yildiz, Nur Hursoy,* 

*Sevda Ozdemir Al, Songul Ozyurt, Neslihan Ozcelik, Hatice Beyazal Polat and Aysegul Copur Cicek*

Coronavirus Disinfection Physical Methods *by Moez Guettari and Ahmed El Aferni*

Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Infection

Immune Response to COVID-19 *by Ricardo Wesley Alberca*

*by Mohamed Abdullah Jaber*

Knowing Our Rival–Coronaviridae: The Virus Family

COVID-19: An Updated Insight of the Pandemic *by Raghunath Satpathy and Prangya Ranjan Rout*
