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. 2020 Jul:140:109770.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109770. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

2019-nCoV-SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection: Crucıalıty of Furın and relevance wıth cancer

Cigdem Usul Afsar  1
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2019-nCoV-SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection: Crucıalıty of Furın and relevance wıth cancer

Cigdem Usul Afsar. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Jul.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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