Nosocomial infection of COVID‑19: A new challenge for healthcare professionals (Review)
- Authors:
- Qiu Du
- Dingding Zhang
- Weimin Hu
- Xuefei Li
- Qiongrong Xia
- Taishen Wen
- Haiping Jia
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Affiliations: Department of Immunology, College of Medical Technology, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan 610072, P.R. China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637100, P.R. China, Department of Medicine, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, P.R. China - Published online on: February 1, 2021 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2021.4864
- Article Number: 31
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Copyright: © Du et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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