A comparative study on the clinical features of COVID-19 pneumonia to other pneumonias
Dahai Zhao, Feifei Yao, Lijie Wang, Ling Zheng, Yongjun Gao, Jun Ye, Feng Guo, Hui Zhao, Rongbao Gao Author Notes
Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa247, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa247
Published: 12 March 2020
Abstract
Background
A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has raised world concern since it emerged in Wuhan Hubei China in December, 2019. The infection may result into severe pneumonia with clusters illness onsets. Its impacts on public health make it paramount to clarify the clinical features with other pneumonias.
Methods
Nineteen 2019-nCoV pneumonia (NCOVID-19) and fifteen other pneumonia patients (NON-NCOVID-19) in out of Hubei places were involved in this study. Both NCOVID-19 and NON-NCOVID-19 patients were confirmed to be infected in throat swabs or/and sputa with or without 2019-nCoV by real-time RT-PCR. We analyzed the demographic, epidemiological, clinical, and radiological features from those patients, and compared the difference between NCOVID-19 and NON-NCOVID-19.