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Hypothesis

A Working Hypothesis on Vesicular Lesions Related to COVID-19 Infection, Koebner Phenomena Type V, and a Short Review of Related Data

Alin Laurentiu Tatu1 Dermatology Department, “St. Parascheva” Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Galati, Romania;2 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinical Medical Department, Dermatology, Medical and Pharmaceutical Research Unit, Competitive, Interdisciplinary Research Integrated Platform, ReForm-UDJG “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galati, RomaniaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4290-7068View further author information
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Liliana Baroiu3 Infectious Diseases Department, “St. Parascheva” Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Galati, Romania;4 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinical Medical Department, “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galati, 800010, RomaniaView further author information
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Silvia Fotea4 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinical Medical Department, “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galati, 800010, Romania;5 Sf Ioan Clinical Hospital of Pediatrics, Galati, RomaniaView further author information
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Lucretia Anghel6 Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galați, 800010, Romania;7 Internal Medicine Department, Sf Andrei Clinical Emergency Hospital, Galati, RomaniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Eduard Drima Polea6 Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galați, 800010, Romania;8 Elisabeta Doamna Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry, Galati, RomaniaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4247-6202View further author information
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Thomas Nadasdy1 Dermatology Department, “St. Parascheva” Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Galati, RomaniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Valentin Chioncel9 Department of Cardio-Thoracic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Phamacy, Bucharest, 050474, RomaniaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0630-8033View further author information
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Lawrence Chukwudi Nwabudike10 N. Paulescu National Institute of Diabetes, Bucharest, RomaniaView further author information
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Pages 419-423 | Published online: 30 Apr 2021

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