AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 4 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2020.73771
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SARS-CoV-2 Related Protein Expression May Predict Vulnerability for Developing COVID-19 in Cancer Patients

Ashutosh Kumar1,2 Ravi Kant Narayan1,2 Vikas Pareek1,3 Chiman Kumari1,4
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1 Etiologically Elusive Disorders Research Network (EEDRN), New Delhi, India
2 Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, India
3 National Brain Research Center, Manesar, Haryana, India
4 Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Training and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
EJMO 2020, 4(4), 353–354; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2020.73771
Submitted: 14 July 2020 | Accepted: 7 August 2020 | Published: 1 December 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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None declared.
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