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COVID-19 pandemic: Mechanistic approaches and gender vulnerabilities

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic virus that causes coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), a severe respiratory damaging syndrome with serious health complications worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 was unfamilar before the epidemic started in Wuhan, China, in Decemb...

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Autores principales: Khan, Luqman, Khaliq, Nisar Ul, Ullah, Asad, Rafiq, Naseem, Ullah, Mujib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2020.11.014
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description Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic virus that causes coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), a severe respiratory damaging syndrome with serious health complications worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 was unfamilar before the epidemic started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is currently a pandemic influencing several countries worldwide. One of the mysteries of the new coronavirus is that it is deadlier for men than women with the male mortality rate is twice as high as that of females.
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spelling pubmed-76859442020-11-25 COVID-19 pandemic: Mechanistic approaches and gender vulnerabilities Khan, Luqman Khaliq, Nisar Ul Ullah, Asad Rafiq, Naseem Ullah, Mujib Saudi Pharm J Article Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic virus that causes coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), a severe respiratory damaging syndrome with serious health complications worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 was unfamilar before the epidemic started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is currently a pandemic influencing several countries worldwide. One of the mysteries of the new coronavirus is that it is deadlier for men than women with the male mortality rate is twice as high as that of females. Elsevier 2020-12 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7685944/ /pubmed/33250638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2020.11.014 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. http://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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