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. 2020 Mar-Apr;38(2):337-342.
doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/xcdary. Epub 2020 Mar 22.

COVID-19, cytokines and immunosuppression: what can we learn from severe acute respiratory syndrome?

Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini  1 , Valeria Giorgi  2 , Silvia Sirotti  2 , Daniela Marotto  3 , Sandro Ardizzone  4 , Giuliano Rizzardini  5 , Spinello Antinori  6 , Massimo Galli  6
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COVID-19, cytokines and immunosuppression: what can we learn from severe acute respiratory syndrome?

Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini et al. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2020 Mar-Apr.
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Abstract

A severe outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in China in December 2019, and spread so rapidly that more than 200,000 cases have so far been reported worldwide; on January 30, 2020, the WHO declared it the sixth public health emergency of international concern. The two previously reported coronavirus epidemics (severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS] and Middle East respiratory syndrome [MERS]) share similar pathogenetic, epidemiological and clinical features as COVID-19. As little is currently known about SARS-CoV-2, it is likely that lessons learned from these major epidemics can be applied to the new pandemic, including the use of novel immunosuppressive drugs.

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    Ferro F, Elefante E, Baldini C, Bartoloni E, Puxeddu I, Talarico R, Mosca M, Bombardieri S. Ferro F, et al. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2020 Mar-Apr;38(2):175-180. doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/r3k9l6. Epub 2020 Mar 24. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2020. PMID: 32207680 No abstract available.

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