Oral medicine, oral pathology and coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
current challenges
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Oral medicine, Coronavirus, COVID-19, LettersAbstract
In late December 2019, a cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases was diagnosed in Wuhan, China, and few days later, the causative agent of this mysterious pneumonia was identified as a novel coronavirus. This causative virus has been temporarily named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the relevant infected disease has been named as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization respectively. The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading in China and all over the world now...
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2020-03-25
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Martelli-Júnior H, Machado RA, Martelli DRB, Coletta RD. Oral medicine, oral pathology and coronavirus (2019-nCoV): current challenges. Braz. J. Oral Sci. [Internet]. 2020Mar.25 [cited 2020Nov.26];190:e200001. Available from: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/bjos/article/view/8658890
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