Abstract

A possible hypothesis might be that the upper respiratory tract is attacked by viruses which are breathed in and coughed up in sputum while the lower respiratory tract is similarly infected, but is also attacked at the same time by blood-borne viruses (following translocation from a significant viral load in the gastrointestinal tract). (For MERS-CoV, treatment with a proton pump inhibitor in an animal model resulted in exaggerated infection in the small intestine [4].) [...]they may not appear on a list of a patient’s usual medications.

Details

Title
Could the severity of COVID-19 be increased by low gastric acidity?
Author
Price, Elizabeth  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Pages
1-2
Section
Research Letter
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
13648535
e-ISSN
1366609X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03182-0
ProQuest document ID
2435081967
Copyright
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