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Author Spotlight: Advancements in Multiplex Detection of Respiratory Viruses
Published on: November 10, 2023
Unveiling Long COVID-19 Disease
Vicente Soriano1, Pilar Ganado-Pinilla1, Miguel Sánchez-Santos1
1UNIR Medical Center and Health Sciences School, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
The clinical spectrum of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus type 2" (SARS-CoV-2) infection is wider than initially thought. The coronavirus does not establish a chronic cellular infection, in contrast with HIV or the hepatitis B virus, that keeps their genomes, respectively, as proviruses integrated within the chromosomes or as episomes (Soriano et al. J Antimicrob Chemother 2014).
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