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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12710/21733
Title: Overview on possible causes of COVID-19
Authors: Draguta, Ilarion
Keywords: COVID-19;lateral gene transfer;viruses;microbiota
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: The Scientific Medical Association of the Republic of Moldova
Abstract: Background: The infection with the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has caused a large number of cases of disease and death worldwide. Identifying the source of COVID-19 is an important issue though still unresolved. The analysis of the literature on highlighting possible sources of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was carried out. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic is occurring on the underlying imminent global ecological catastrophe as a result of the anthropogenic activity. Therefore, it can be stated that Homo Sapiens in the context of the interaction with the biosphere is a maladaptive species. According to the literature, the species’ adaptive responses to environmental changes are due to endogenous retroviruses. The latter act as evolutionary factors. Possible pandemic COVID-19 is not a separate epidemic process caused by the penetration of a new virus into human populations, but rather is one of the manifestations of a more complex natural phenomenon – an evolutionary process under the guise of an infectious one. In terms of evolution, COVID-19 plays the role of a biosphere factor that seeks to help a relatively new species to adapt to the general conditions of survival in a symbiotic relationship with other living organisms.
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: The Moldovan Medical Journal
URI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.52418/moldovan-med-j.65-1.22.08
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http://repository.usmf.md/handle/20.500.12710/21733
ISSN: 2537-6373
2537-6381
Appears in Collections:The Moldovan Medical Journal. Vol. 65, No 1, August 2022

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