First Cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Iran, 2020: Case Series Report

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Tayebeh SHAHBAZI¹  Mostafa SABERIAN²  Somayeh SHATIZADEH MALEKSHAHI³  Nazanin-Zahra SHAFIEI-JANDAGHI⁴  Akramsadat AHMADI⁴  Saeedeh MAHFOUZI⁴  Kaveh SADEGHI⁴  Ahmad NEJATI⁴  Kobra RAZAVI⁴  Jila YAVARIAN⁴  Najmeh PARHIZGARI⁴  Talat MOKHTARI AZAD⁴  Elham ZANJANI⁴  Nastaran GHAVVAMI⁴  Fatemeh SAADATMAND⁴  Soad GHABESHI⁴  Vahid SALIMI⁴  Fatemeh AJAMINEJAD⁴  Ghazal FATEMINASAB⁴  Hosseinn ERFANI⁵  Farshid REZAIE⁵  Mohammad NASR DADRAS⁵  Mohammad Mehdi GOUYA⁵  Fatemeh NAMAZI⁶ 

[1] Department of Bacteriology, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Iranian Center for Communicable Disease Control, Tehran, Iran;School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: SARS-CoV-2;    Iran;    Emerging disease;    Virus;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.18502/ijph.v49i8.3903

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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