Case Report: Death due to COVID-19 in Three Brothers
Open Access
- 1 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 102 (6), 1203-1204
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0240
Abstract
We report fatal cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in three brothers in Iran. An increased susceptibility to specific pathogens has been reported for a number of genetic defects. Considering the fact that most of them who are affected by COVID-19 recover, deaths in three brothers who lived separately and had no known underlying disease suggest genetic predisposition to COVID-19 in some individuals.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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