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Repeated Testing in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
2020
Letter to Editor : oral lesions in a patient with Covid-19
2020
An Italian Guidance Model for the Management of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Patients in the Primary Care Setting
2020
An outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 started in China's Hubei province at the end of 2019 has rapidly become a pandemic. In Italy, a great number of patients was managed in primary care setting and the role of general practitioners and physicians working in the first-aid emergency medical service has become of utmost importance to coordinate the network between the territory and hospitals during the pandemic. Aim of this manuscript is to provide a guidance model for the management of suspected, probable, or confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the primary care setting, from diagnosis to treatment, applying also the recommendations of the Italian Society of Ge…
Number of COVID-19 patients classified as cured: an imminent danger for the population.
2020
Caro Editor, Diversos estudos tem sido conduzidos destacando a gravidade de muitos casos da doenca pelo coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).(–) Contudo, os criterios adotados ate entao por muitos paises, como o Brasil, com respeito a evolucao para cura de pacientes assintomaticos ou com sintomas leves, podem representar riscos, devido a algumas limitacoes para o monitoramento da evolucao da infeccao. A recomendacao atual, nesses casos, preve a realizacao de testes laboratoriais confirmatorios de cura apenas para os casos graves da doenca. Os [...]
Comment on ‘Two cases of COVID‐19 presenting with a clinical picture resembling chilblains: first report from the Middle East’: pernio unrelated to C…
2020
The risk of the 'prison-emptying' effect in Italy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020
People who live and work or are detained inside restricted communities (including prisons) need to be considered as they are at a high risk of becoming infected with Covid-19 during this pandemic.1 InItaly, the spread of Covid-19 has provoked numerous riots within the prisons and local detention centres, and there is a consequent increase in requests for inmates to be released and detained at home