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05.03.2020 | COVID-19 | Letters to the editor
SARS-CoV-2: a potential novel etiology of fulminant myocarditis
verfasst von:
Chen Chen, MD, PhD, Yiwu Zhou, PhD, Prof. Dao Wen Wang, MD, PhD
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Ausgabe 3/2020
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Coronaviruses are enveloped nonsegmented positive-sense RNA viruses, which are broadly distributed in humans and other mammals, including camels, bats, masked palm civets, mice, dogs, and cats [
1]. Although most human coronavirus infections are mild, coronaviruses have caused two large-scale pandemics in the last two decades: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) with a mortality rate of 10%, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) with a mortality rate of 37%, together causing more than 10,000 cumulative cases [
2,
3]. …