Assessing the risks associated with the emergence of Florona and possible preventive measures

Fahadul Islam¹, Manish Dhawan^{2

3}, Saikat Mitra⁴, Talha Bin Emran⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
³ Trafford College, Manchester, UK.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy, BGC Trust University Bangladesh, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Fahadul Islam et al. J Med Virol. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;94(9):4031-4033.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.27830. Epub 2022 May 12.

Fahadul Islam¹, Manish Dhawan^{2

3}, Saikat Mitra⁴, Talha Bin Emran⁵

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
³ Trafford College, Manchester, UK.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy, BGC Trust University Bangladesh, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Florona; Omicron; SARS-CoV-2; VOC.

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