COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal tract: more than meets the eye

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong siewchienng@cuhk.edu.hk herbert.tilg@i-med.ac.at.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria siewchienng@cuhk.edu.hk herbert.tilg@i-med.ac.at.

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Siew C Ng et al. Gut. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;69(6):973-974.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321195. Epub 2020 Apr 9.

¹ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong siewchienng@cuhk.edu.hk herbert.tilg@i-med.ac.at.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria siewchienng@cuhk.edu.hk herbert.tilg@i-med.ac.at.

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Keywords: diarrhoea; enterocyte biology; inflammation.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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