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Cumulative effect of aging and SARS-CoV2 infection on poor prognosis in the elderly: Insights from transcriptomic analysis of lung and blood
2020-06-16
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<h4>Introduction</h4> The ongoing pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2) has affected millions of people worldwide and with notable heterogeneity in its clinical presentation. Probability of contracting this highly contagious infection is similar across age groups but disease severity and fatality among aged patients with or without comorbidities are higher. We hypothesiz...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2e787efa-371c-57f4-ac30-9dca24d1f465
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.15.151761