: COVID-19

Blake Oberfeld1, Aditya Achanta1, Kendall Carpenter1

  • 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Cell
|May 16, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

SARS-CoV-2によって引き起こされる新型コロナウイルス病 2019 (COVID-19) は,重度の病気を引き起こす可能性があります. この呼吸器疾患と戦うために抗ウイルス薬やワクチンのような治療法に関する研究が進行中です.

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