Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020

L. Bordi, E. Nicastri, L. Scorzolini, A. di Caro, M. Capobianchi, C. Castilletti, E. Lalle

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020

A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the causative pathogen of an ongoing outbreak of respiratory disease, now named COVID-19. Most cases and sustained transmission occurred in China, but travel-associated cases have been reported in other countries, including Europe and Italy. Since the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, differential diagnosis in travellers arriving from countries with wide-spread COVID-19 must include other more common infections such as influenza and other respiratory tract diseases.

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Field of study: Medicine

10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000170