COVID-19 and sickle cell disease in Bahrain

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a newly identified strain of the coronavirus family that has been shown to affect the hemoglobin beta chain, the same chain that has sickle cell disease (SCD) mutation. This study was undertaken to see if COVID-19 infection increased dis...

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Main Authors: Abdulkarim AbdulRahman, Salman AlAli, Omar Yaghi, Mohammed Shabaan, Sameer Otoom, Stephen L. Atkin, Manaf AlQahtani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220321494

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