AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2020.47992
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Recombinant Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 and COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Theoretical or a Real Resource?

Mirko Barone1 Claudio Ucciferri2,5 Giuseppe Cipollone3,4 Felice Mucilli3,4
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1 Department of General and Oncological Surgery, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
2 Department of Infectious Diseases, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
3 Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
4 University Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
5 University Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
EJMO 2020, 4(2), 139–140; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2020.47992
Submitted: 1 March 2020 | Accepted: 14 March 2020 | Published: 15 April 2020
© 2020 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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