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. 2020 Jul:250:255-256.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2020.05.015. Epub 2020 May 11.

COVID-19 during pregnancy: Potential risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in neonates?

Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho  1 , Diego Moura Tanajura  2 , Hudson P Santos Jr  3 , Victor Santana Santos  4
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COVID-19 during pregnancy: Potential risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in neonates?

Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho et al. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 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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