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Infectious Disease and Boxing

There are no unique boxing diseases but certain factors contributing to the spread of illnesses apply strongly to the boxer, coach, and the training facility. This article examines the nature of the sport of boxing and its surrounding environment, and the likelihood of spread of infection through ai...

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Autor principal: King, Osric S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7131564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19819401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2009.06.002
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spelling pubmed-71315642020-04-08 Infectious Disease and Boxing King, Osric S. Clin Sports Med Article There are no unique boxing diseases but certain factors contributing to the spread of illnesses apply strongly to the boxer, coach, and the training facility. This article examines the nature of the sport of boxing and its surrounding environment, and the likelihood of spread of infection through airborne, contact, or blood-borne routes of transmission. Evidence from other sports such as running, wrestling, and martial arts is included to help elucidate the pathophysiologic elements that could be identified in boxers. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2009-10 2009-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7131564/ /pubmed/19819401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2009.06.002 Text en Copyright © 2009 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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