Borderless collaboration is needed for COVID-19-A disease that knows no borders

Kawthar Mohamed; Eduardo Rodríguez-Román; Farzaneh Rahmani; Hongbo Zhang; Mariya Ivanovska; Sara A Makka; Musa Joya; Rangarirai Makuku; Md Shahidul Islam; Nesrine Radwan; Laila Rahmah; Rayan Goda; Sunny O Abarikwu; Mujtaba Shaw; Samaneh Zoghi; Sevan Irtsyan; Irene Ling; Orsolya Cseprekal; Attig-Bahar Faten; Esra Hazar Sayar; Chagajeg Soloukey; Giulia Grancini; Nima Rezaei

doi:10.1017/ice.2020.162

Borderless collaboration is needed for COVID-19-A disease that knows no borders

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Oct;41(10):1245-1246. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.162. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

Authors

Kawthar Mohamed^{1

2}, Eduardo Rodríguez-Román^{3

4}, Farzaneh Rahmani^{5

6}, Hongbo Zhang^{7

8}, Mariya Ivanovska^{9

10}, Sara A Makka^{11

12}, Musa Joya^{13

14}, Rangarirai Makuku^{1

15}, Md Shahidul Islam^{16

17}, Nesrine Radwan^{18

19}, Laila Rahmah^{1

20}, Rayan Goda^{21

22}, Sunny O Abarikwu^{23

24}, Mujtaba Shaw^{1

25}, Samaneh Zoghi^{26

27}, Sevan Irtsyan^{28

29}, Irene Ling^{30

31}, Orsolya Cseprekal^{32

33}, Attig-Bahar Faten^{34

35}, Esra Hazar Sayar^{36

37}, Chagajeg Soloukey^{38

39}, Giulia Grancini^{40

41}, Nima Rezaei^{1

42}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Manama, Bahrain.
³ Center for Microbiology and Cell Biology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.
⁴ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Caracas, Venezuela.
⁵ Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States.
⁶ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Missouri, United States.
⁷ Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory and Turku Bioscience Centre, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
⁸ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Turku, Finland.
⁹ Research Center, Department of microbiology and immunology, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
¹⁰ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
¹¹ Neuroscience Research Center, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
¹² Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Beirut, Lebanon.
¹³ Radiology Department, Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.
¹⁴ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Kabul, Afghanistan.
¹⁵ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Harare, Zimbabwe.
¹⁶ Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁷ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁸ Allergy & Immunology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
¹⁹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Cairo, Egypt.
²⁰ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Jakarta, Indonesia.
²¹ Clinical Immunology and Allergy Council, Sudanese Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Khartoum, Sudan.
²² Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Khartoum, Sudan.
²³ Department of Biochemistry, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria.
²⁴ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Choba, Nigeria.
²⁵ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Kashmir, India.
²⁶ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases, Vienna, Austria.
²⁷ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Vienna, Austria.
²⁸ Laboratory Service of Arakbir Medical Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
²⁹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Yerevan, Armenia.
³⁰ School of Science, Monash University Malasia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
³¹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
³² Department of Transplantation and Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
³³ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Budapest, Hungary.
³⁴ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tunisia, Tunis.
³⁵ University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
³⁶ Alenya Training and Research Hospital, Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey.
³⁷ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Antalya, Turkey.
³⁸ Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁰ Physical Chemistry Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
⁴¹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Pavia, Italy.
⁴² Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
International Cooperation*
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
SARS-CoV-2