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. 2020 Aug;81(2):e114-e116.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.062. Epub 2020 May 28.

Fatality rate of COVID-19 in patients with malignancies: a sytematic review and meta-analysis

Zeinab Mohseni Afshar  1 , Maliheh Dayani  2 , Mehdi Naderi  3 , Farnia Ghanbarveisi  4 , Samira Shiri  5 , Fatemeh Rajati  6
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Fatality rate of COVID-19 in patients with malignancies: a sytematic review and meta-analysis

Zeinab Mohseni Afshar et al. J Infect. 2020 Aug.
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