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cord-303018-3ka72y3p	Ng, Siew C	COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal tract: more than meets the eye	2020-04-09		.txt	text/plain	1646	98	54	COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal tract: more than meets the eye Siew C Ng , 1 Herbert Tilg 2 An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 , caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly spread from China to almost all over the world affecting over 800,000 people across 199 countries. 5 In GUT several articles report on GI symptoms, detection of the virus in faeces and potential pathophysiological aspects including viral receptor expression in the GI tract. In about 50% of COVID-19 cases, the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in faecal samples and detection of SARS-CoV-2 in intestinal mucosa of infected patients suggest that enteric symptoms could be caused by invasion of ACE2 expressing enterocytes and the GI tract may be an alternative route of infection. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China Epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of 74 cases of coronavirus-infected disease 2019 (COVID-19) with gastrointestinal symptoms	./cache/cord-303018-3ka72y3p.txt	./txt/cord-303018-3ka72y3p.txt