The clinical dynamics of 18 cases of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2020, Pages

  Wang, Lei ^a   Gao, Yong H ^a   Lou, Li Li ^a   Zhang, Guo Jun ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMISSION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SYMPTOM; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85083172804     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00398-2020     Document Type: Letter

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