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Infections Due to Coronaviruses

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The chapter includes brief characteristics of SARS and MERS, basing on literature and a detailed description of COVID-19, basing primarily on the author’s own experience, studying numerous lethal cases in Saint-Petersburg using bright spectrum of morphological methods. Concept of different pathogenic variants is presented. The text is illustrated by ten original photos.

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  1. Pathomorphology, Institute of Experimental Medicine at V.A. Almazov Research Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vsevolod Zinserling

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Zinserling, V. (2021). Infections Due to Coronaviruses. In: Infectious Pathology of the Respiratory Tract. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66325-4_6

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