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'Micro-terrorism': COVID-19 Makes the Horrible Face of Microbiology

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infectious diseases
Medical virology

Abstract

Micro-terrorism! We coin this term to show the horrible face of microbiology in a way similar to the current widespread terrorism throughout the world. Throughout the ages, tiny organisms were the immediate cause of devastating epidemics that killed hundreds of millions of the inhabitants of the planet. Corona virus disease -19 (COVID-19) is a prominent milestone in the history of microbiology. Historically, microbiology witnessed prominent milestones from the discoveries of Antoni Philips van Leeuwenhoek and Louis Pasteur, to the development of antibiotics in the first half of the twentieth century. Nowadays we live a new milestone in microbiology history. From the public point of view, it is really astonishing that a tiny unseen organism could produce such a huge transition in the history of the world. Extra jeopardy is that the COVID-19 patient put his contacts at work and household members at a real risk of rapidly transmitting the disease all over the world.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2021.59271.1112

Keywords

Micro-terrorism, COVID-19, pandemic

Authors

First Name

Hatem

Last Name

Mohamed

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Affiliation

Najran University, College of Medicine, Najran, Saudi Arabia

Email

hatem.mhamed@hotmail.com

City

Najran

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First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Huneif

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia

Email

huneif@hotmail.com

City

Najran

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First Name

Awad

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Professor of Internal Medicine, Najran University, Saudi Arabia

Email

awad.sd@gmail.com

City

Najran

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Volume

2

Article Issue

3

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26240

Issue Date

2021-08-01

Receive Date

2021-01-22

Publish Date

2021-08-01

Page Start

400

Page End

402

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

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MID_Volume 2_Issue 3_Pages 400-402.pdf

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1,159

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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'Micro-terrorism': COVID-19 Makes the Horrible Face of Microbiology

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22 Jan 2023