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Editorial
. 2020 May-Jun:35:101613.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101613. Epub 2020 Feb 29.

COVID-19 in Latin America: The implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales  1 , Viviana Gallego  2 , Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana  3 , Claudio A Méndez  4 , Lysien I Zambrano  5 , Carlos Franco-Paredes  6 , Jose A Suárez  7 , Hernan D Rodriguez-Enciso  8 , Graciela Josefina Balbin-Ramon  9 , Eduardo Savio-Larriera  10 , Alejandro Risquez  11 , Sergio Cimerman  12
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COVID-19 in Latin America: The implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 May-Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: 2019-New coronavirus; COVID-19; Latin America; Outbreak; SARS-CoV-2; Transmission.

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Declaration of competing interest None of the authors has any conflict of interest to declare.All authors report no potential conflicts. All authors have submitted the Form for Disclosure of Potential.

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Flight connections from São Paulo's main international airport, Brazil. Source: flightconnections.com.
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