COVID-19 indirect contact transmission through the oral mucosa must not be ignored

Ze Zhang^{1

2}, Lichao Zhang³, Yanqiao Wang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
² Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
³ Department of Parasitology of Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.

Comment

Ze Zhang et al. J Oral Pathol Med. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;49(5):450-451.

doi: 10.1111/jop.13019.

Ze Zhang^{1

2}, Lichao Zhang³, Yanqiao Wang⁴

¹ Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
² Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
³ Department of Parasitology of Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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