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Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading?
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has already infected more than 6. 3 million people worldwide as of 1st June 2020 and caused a global medical emergency. Healthcare professionals have been struggling to devise appropriate therapeutic strategies against the virus mainly due to the diverse range of sympto...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00370 |
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author | Prasad, Ashish Prasad, Manoj |
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description | COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has already infected more than 6. 3 million people worldwide as of 1st June 2020 and caused a global medical emergency. Healthcare professionals have been struggling to devise appropriate therapeutic strategies against the virus mainly due to the diverse range of symptoms and multiple-organ failure in infected patients. Several broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are being used for treatment; however, there is yet no specific drug or vaccine against the virus. Multiple-organ failure due to hyperactivity of the immune system resulting in cytokine storms is a major reason for death among the 5% critically ill patients. In this article, we have discussed the damage caused by COVID-19 on different organs of the human body. |
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spelling | pubmed-74194632020-08-25 Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? Prasad, Ashish Prasad, Manoj Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has already infected more than 6. 3 million people worldwide as of 1st June 2020 and caused a global medical emergency. Healthcare professionals have been struggling to devise appropriate therapeutic strategies against the virus mainly due to the diverse range of symptoms and multiple-organ failure in infected patients. Several broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are being used for treatment; however, there is yet no specific drug or vaccine against the virus. Multiple-organ failure due to hyperactivity of the immune system resulting in cytokine storms is a major reason for death among the 5% critically ill patients. In this article, we have discussed the damage caused by COVID-19 on different organs of the human body. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7419463/ /pubmed/32850890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00370 Text en Copyright © 2020 Prasad and Prasad. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Prasad, Ashish Prasad, Manoj Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title | Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title_full | Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title_fullStr | Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title_full_unstemmed | Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title_short | Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? |
title_sort | single virus targeting multiple organs: what we know and where we are heading? |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00370 |
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