Effect of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Patients With COVID-19

Because of accumulating evidence pointing to continuous person-to-person transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in hospital and family settings,1,2 the World Health Organization has recently declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. Fever and respiratory symptoms tend to be initial and major, whereas gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms were also observed in a significant portion of patients.3 Positive findings of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction further showed that COVID-19 may spread by fecal-oral transmission.

• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/13331
• Acceso en línea: https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)30362-0/fulltext?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3DD%26q%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1053%2Fj.gastro.2020.03.020%26ust%3D1600357320000000%26usg%3DAOvVaw2SonEeXRyq3SMIoFW1Aar7%26hl%3Des#secsectitle0050; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/13331; https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.03.020
• Palabra clave: Gastrointestinal Symptoms; Acute Respiratory Disease; Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus
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