Sexually transmitted COVID-19

Ayman Abdelmaksoud¹, Michelangelo Vestita^{2

3}, Mohamad Goldust^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Mansoura Dermatology, Venerology and Leprology Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt.
² Unit of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
³ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Rome G. Marconi, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Comment

Ayman Abdelmaksoud et al. Dermatol Ther. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;33(6):e13982.

doi: 10.1111/dth.13982. Epub 2020 Jul 27.

Ayman Abdelmaksoud¹, Michelangelo Vestita^{2

3}, Mohamad Goldust^{4

5

6}

¹ Department of Dermatology, Mansoura Dermatology, Venerology and Leprology Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt.
² Unit of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
³ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Rome G. Marconi, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Can COVID-19 be a sexually transmitted disease? Posterity will judge.
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