Are Italy and Iran really suffering from COVID-19 epidemic? A controversial study
H. Al-Najjar, N. Al-Rousan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey. hazem_najjar@yahoo.com
The number of global COVID-19 infected cases is increased rapidly to exceed 370 thousand. COVID-19 is transmitted between humans through direct contact and touching dirty surfaces. This paper aims to find the similarity between DNA sequences of COVID-19 in different countries, and to compare these sequences with three different diseases [HIV, Hand-Foot-Mouth disease (HFMD), and Cryptococcus]. The study used pairwise distance, maximum likelihood tree, and similarity between amino acid to find the results. The results showed that different three main types of viruses namely, COVID-19 are found. The virus in both Italy and Iran is not similar to COVID-19 in China and USA. While, two viruses were spread in Wuhan (before and after December 26, 2019). Besides Cryptococcus and HFMD are found as dominant diseases with Group 1 and Group 3, respectively. Authors claim that the current virus in Italy and Iran that killed thousands of people is not COVID-19 based on the available data.
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H. Al-Najjar, N. Al-Rousan
Are Italy and Iran really suffering from COVID-19 epidemic? A controversial study
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci
Year: 2020
Vol. 24 - N. 8
Pages: 4519-4522
DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202004_21034