Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Fecal Viral Shedding in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

JAMA Network Open

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2020, Pages

  Parasa, Sravanthi ^a   Desai, Madhav ^b   Thoguluva Chandrasekar, Viveksandeep ^c   Patel, Harsh K ^d   Kennedy, Kevin F ^e   Roesch, Thomas ^f   Spadaccini, Marco ^g   Colombo, Matteo ^g   Gabbiadini, Roberto ^g   Artifon, Everson L A ^h   Repici, Alessandro ^g   Sharma, Prateek ^b  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e Saint Luke's Perinatal Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVEL; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DIARRHEA; EMBASE; FECES MICROFLORA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION BIAS; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS SHEDDING; VOMITING; ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; VIRUS SHEDDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85086354124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25743805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.11335     Document Type: Review

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