COVID-19: Pandemic unexpected

Authors

  • Paulo Paixão Director do Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Hospital da Luz, Lisboa, Portugal; Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Virologia; Professor de Microbiologia da Unidade de Infeção da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-0872

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24950/R/P.Paixao/1/2021

Keywords:

COVID-19, Pandemics, SARS-CoV-2

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Published

2021-09-20

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Paixão P. COVID-19: Pandemic unexpected. RPMI [Internet]. 2021 Sep. 20 [cited 2024 Dec. 18];28(1):72-5. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/91

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