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    <language>eng</language>
    <publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
    <journalTitle>International Journal of Celiac Disease</journalTitle>
    <eissn>2334-3486</eissn>
    <publicationDate>2020-06-25</publicationDate>
    <volume>8</volume>
    <issue>2</issue>
    <startPage>64</startPage>
    <endPage>67</endPage>
    <doi>10.12691/ijcd-8-2-7</doi>
    <publisherRecordId>IJCD2020827</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Covid-19 and the Human Gut: A New Runner on the Tract</title>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <name>Lerner Aaron</name>
        <email>aaronlerner1948@gmail.com</email>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
    </authors>
    <affiliationsList>
      <affiliationName affiliationId="1">Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel</affiliationName>
    </affiliationsList>
    <abstract language="eng">The severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) dwells in the respiratory airways, however, its digestive tract presence, infectivity, mucosal attachment and penetrating mechanisms, enteric proliferation, stool shading, flashed bio-aerosol spreading and fecal-oral transmission is far from being understood. The present review opens some skylights to lighten the long, tortuous, dark and challenging tunnel of the gastrointestinal tract and his uninvited covid-19 viral new inhabitant.</abstract>
    <fullTextUrl format="pdf">http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/8/2/7/ijcd-8-2-7.pdf</fullTextUrl>
    <keywords language="eng">
      <keyword>covid-19</keyword>
      <keyword>SARS-CoV-2</keyword>
      <keyword>corona virus</keyword>
      <keyword>gut</keyword>
      <keyword>intestine</keyword>
      <keyword>gastrointestinal tract</keyword>
      <keyword>endoscopy</keyword>
      <keyword>stool</keyword>
      <keyword>infectivity</keyword>
      <keyword>transmission</keyword>
    </keywords>
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