Digestive Symptoms in COVID-19 Patients with Mild Disease Severity: Clinical Presentation, Stool Viral RNA Testing, and Outcomes

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 916-923

  Han, Chaoqun ^a   Duan, Caihan ^a   Zhang, Shengyan ^a   Spiegel, Brennan ^b   Shi, Huiying ^a   Wang, Weijun ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Lin, Rong ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   DIng, Zhen ^a   Hou, Xiaohua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VOMITING; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT, HEALTH CARE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RNA, VIRAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85084590395     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000664     Document Type: Article

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