The COVID-19 Pandemic from an Ophthalmologist’s Perspective

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly spreading around the world. The first doctor to report this new disease was an ophthalmologist: this exemplifies the role of ophthalmologists in an infectious disease pandemic. Here we review how severe acute respiratory syndrome co...

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Autores principales: Bacherini, Daniela, Biagini, Ilaria, Lenzetti, Chiara, Virgili, Gianni, Rizzo, Stanislao, Giansanti, Fabrizio
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32470381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2020.03.008
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author Bacherini, Daniela
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description The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly spreading around the world. The first doctor to report this new disease was an ophthalmologist: this exemplifies the role of ophthalmologists in an infectious disease pandemic. Here we review how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects the eye and discuss implications for ophthalmologists.
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spelling pubmed-71953122020-05-02 The COVID-19 Pandemic from an Ophthalmologist’s Perspective Bacherini, Daniela Biagini, Ilaria Lenzetti, Chiara Virgili, Gianni Rizzo, Stanislao Giansanti, Fabrizio Trends Mol Med Article The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly spreading around the world. The first doctor to report this new disease was an ophthalmologist: this exemplifies the role of ophthalmologists in an infectious disease pandemic. Here we review how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects the eye and discuss implications for ophthalmologists. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-06 2020-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7195312/ /pubmed/32470381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2020.03.008 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 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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