Protecting health-care workers from subclinical coronavirus infection

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2020, Pages e13-

  Chang, De ^a,b   Xu, Huiwen ^c   Rebaza, Andre ^b   Sharma, Lokesh ^b   Dela Cruz, Charles S ^b  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR FOOD AND DRUG CONTROL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; CHINA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BETACORONAVIRUS; PANDEMIC; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 85080067515     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30066-7     Document Type: Letter

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