letter to the editor

Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 102-103

  Alsolamy, Sami ^a   Arabi, Yaseen M ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MANUAL VENTILATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; PATIENT CARE; SOUTH KOREA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 84948970193     PISSN: 12059838     EISSN: 23686820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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