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SUBMITTER: Dodig S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7394259 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dodig Slavica S Čepelak Ivana I Čepelak Dodig Daniela D Laškaj Renata R
Biochemia medica 20200805 3
The new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2) causes a disease called COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), that develops mostly in subjects with already impaired immune system function, primarily in the elderly and in individuals with some chronic disease or condition. The reasons for this should be sought in the processes of aging and chronic latent inflammation, <i>i.e.</i> immunosenescence and inflammaging. Laboratory medicine specialists are currently foc ...[more]