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SARS-CoV-2 infects and induces cytotoxic effects in human cardiomyocytes
2020-06-01
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<h4>Background: </h4> The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has emerged as global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to elevated markers of cardiac injury associated with higher risk of mortality in COVID-19 patients. It is unclear whether cardiac injury may have been caused by direct infection of cardiomyocytes or is mainly secon...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8cb1c6fe-4078-5b99-9c8c-7661da3b42bf
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.01.127605
