AccScience Publishing / JCTR / Volume 6 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.18053/jctres.06.202003.004
MEDICAL HYPOTHESIS

Anti-tumor necrosis factor agents and COVID-19: A word of caution 

Roy Hajjar1,2 Gabriel Chan1,2*
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1 Department of Surgery, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, Québec. 5415, boulevard de l’Assomption, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2 Division of General Surgery, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Submitted: 13 June 2020 | Revised: 27 July 2020 | Accepted: 27 July 2020 | Published: 29 August 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/ )
Keywords
COVID-19
tumor necrosis factor
anti-TNF
Conflict of interest
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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