COVID-19 and Influenza Co-Infection: Report of Three Cases

Influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a novel virus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Influenza is an infectious respiratory disease, caused b...

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Autores principales: Singh, Balraj, Kaur, Parminder, Reid, Ro-Jay, Shamoon, Fayez, Bikkina, Mahesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832306
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9852
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author Singh, Balraj
Kaur, Parminder
Reid, Ro-Jay
Shamoon, Fayez
Bikkina, Mahesh
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description Influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a novel virus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Influenza is an infectious respiratory disease, caused by influenza A and influenza B viruses. We describe the three cases of influenza and COVID-19 co-infection.
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spelling pubmed-74370982020-08-21 COVID-19 and Influenza Co-Infection: Report of Three Cases Singh, Balraj Kaur, Parminder Reid, Ro-Jay Shamoon, Fayez Bikkina, Mahesh Cureus Internal Medicine Influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a novel virus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Influenza is an infectious respiratory disease, caused by influenza A and influenza B viruses. We describe the three cases of influenza and COVID-19 co-infection. Cureus 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7437098/ /pubmed/32832306 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9852 Text en Copyright © 2020, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kaur, Parminder
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COVID-19 and Influenza Co-Infection: Report of Three Cases
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title_fullStr COVID-19 and Influenza Co-Infection: Report of Three Cases
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title_short COVID-19 and Influenza Co-Infection: Report of Three Cases
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