id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-266324-uvsmbrbf Zhang, Hu Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: A report of 164 cases 2020-05-08 .txt text/plain 2336 131 48 title: Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: A report of 164 cases A cohort study of 140 COVID-19 patients showed that gastrointestinal symptoms were observed in 39.6% of the patients, including nausea (17.3%), diarrhoea (12.9%) and vomiting (5.0%) [4] . Therefore, we determined that a retrospective analysis of cases might be useful for clinicians to identify the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms. In this study, red and white blood cells were not identified in the faeces of patients who experienced gastrointestinal symptoms, a finding characteristic of viral infections. Second, this study was the lack of the result of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the stool of COVID-19 patients, so we did not determine the hypothesis that the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms may be related to the presence of viral replication in stool. Clinical characteristics of 140 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan ./cache/cord-266324-uvsmbrbf.txt ./txt/cord-266324-uvsmbrbf.txt