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Perspectives on the death investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic of COVID-19 caused by 2019-nCoV outbreaks in most of the countries, has subsequently spread rapidly and become a pandemic worldwide. Due to the strong infectivity of COVID-19 and lack of experience of performing an autopsy in infectious disease-induced death, the pandemic created some c...

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Autores principales: Xue, Ye, Lai, Liying, Liu, Chao, Niu, Yong, Zhao, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32412012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.04.001
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Lai, Liying
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description The pandemic of COVID-19 caused by 2019-nCoV outbreaks in most of the countries, has subsequently spread rapidly and become a pandemic worldwide. Due to the strong infectivity of COVID-19 and lack of experience of performing an autopsy in infectious disease-induced death, the pandemic created some challenges for forensic practitioners. In this article, we summarize the experience of how we handle the confirmed or suspected infectious cases and give some perspectives for the future.
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spelling pubmed-71445082020-04-09 Perspectives on the death investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic Xue, Ye Lai, Liying Liu, Chao Niu, Yong Zhao, Jian Forensic Sci Int Synerg Perspectives on Forensic Science The pandemic of COVID-19 caused by 2019-nCoV outbreaks in most of the countries, has subsequently spread rapidly and become a pandemic worldwide. Due to the strong infectivity of COVID-19 and lack of experience of performing an autopsy in infectious disease-induced death, the pandemic created some challenges for forensic practitioners. In this article, we summarize the experience of how we handle the confirmed or suspected infectious cases and give some perspectives for the future. Elsevier 2020-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7144508/ /pubmed/32412012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.04.001 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32412012
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