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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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Open Access 01-07-2020 | Coronavirus | Editorial

COVID-19 pandemic: guidance for nuclear medicine departments

Authors: D. Paez, G. Gnanasegaran, S. Fanti, J. Bomanji, M. Hacker, M. Sathekge, H. S. Bom, J. J. Cerci, A. Chiti, K. Herrmann, A. M. Scott, J. Czernin, N. El-Haj, E. Estrada, O. Pellet, P. Orellana, F. Giammarile, M. Abdel-Wahab

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 7/2020

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Coronaviruses are non-segmented, enveloped positive-sense ribonucleic acid viruses from the Coronaviridae family. There are six types of the coronavirus known to infect humans. Four of them cause mild respiratory symptoms, while two of them, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS) and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), have caused epidemics with high mortality rates [1, 2]. …

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Title: COVID-19 pandemic: guidance for nuclear medicine departments
Authors: D. Paez
G. Gnanasegaran
S. Fanti
J. Bomanji
M. Hacker
M. Sathekge
H. S. Bom
J. J. Cerci
A. Chiti
K. Herrmann
A. M. Scott
J. Czernin
N. El-Haj
E. Estrada
O. Pellet
P. Orellana
F. Giammarile
M. Abdel-Wahab
Publication date: 01-07-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Coronavirus
COVID-19
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 7/2020
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04825-8

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