Journal of Pharmacovigilance

Institute of Asian Medical Science, Zakura, Sgrinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Biography

Dr. Afroza Jan is an eminent researcher working as a Research Officer (Scientist-III), Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, University of Kashmir, India. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian Medical Science, Srinagar. She has a research interest in Varicose Vein, Hypothyroidism,  Primary Dysmenorrhea.

Publications

• Review   
  Corona virus and traditional approach for developing immunity through unani herbal medicine
  Author(s): Arsheed Iqbal*, Adil Rashid, Haider Ali Quraishi, Afroza Jan and Shiekh Zahoor Ahmad
  
  Till date four coronaviruses are found to exist i.e. human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), HCoV-0C43, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), fourth human coronavirus, HCoV-NL63 has been reported from a seven-month-old child with bronchiolitis and conjunctival inflammation. Coronaviruses, a genus of the coronaviridae family, are enveloped viruses with large plua- strand RNA genome. The genomic RNA is 27-32 kb in size, capped and polyadenylated. After detailed and extensive research coronaviruses have been found in rats, mice, chickens, swine cattle, horses, dog, cats, rabbits, humans and can cause a wide variety of diseases including gastroenteritis and respiratory tract diseases. The most recent found SARS-CoV can lead to life threating pneumonia and is the most pathogenic human coronavirus identified so far. This fatal and highly contagious virus is.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-6887.21.9.296

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