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. 2021 Nov 19:76:e3528.
doi: 10.6061/clinics/2021/e3528. eCollection 2021.

COVID-19 and strongyloidiasis: what to expect from this coinfection?

Carolina Victoria Marcitelli Pereira  1 , Giovanna Ribeiro Achur Mastandrea  1 , Ana Clara Cassine de Souza Medeiros  1 , Ronaldo Cesar Borges Gryschek  2   3 , Fabiana Martins de Paula  2   3 , Marcelo Andreetta Corral  1   2   3
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COVID-19 and strongyloidiasis: what to expect from this coinfection?

Carolina Victoria Marcitelli Pereira et al. Clinics (Sao Paulo). .
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Figure 1. Timeline of the main events related to SARS-CoV-2 and S. stercoralis coinfections.
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