SARS-CoV-2 Gastrointestinal Infection Causing Hemorrhagic Colitis: Implications for Detection and Transmission of COVID-19 Disease

Am J Gastroenterol. 2020 Jun;115(6):942-946. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000667.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antimalarials / administration & dosage
  • Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
  • COVID-19
  • Colitis* / diagnosis
  • Colitis* / etiology
  • Colitis* / physiopathology
  • Colitis* / therapy
  • Colonoscopy / methods
  • Coronavirus Infections* / physiopathology
  • Coronavirus Infections* / therapy
  • Coronavirus Infections* / transmission
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Female
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage* / diagnosis
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage* / etiology
  • Humans
  • Hydroxychloroquine / administration & dosage*
  • Intestine, Large* / diagnostic imaging
  • Intestine, Large* / pathology
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / methods
  • Pandemics*
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / etiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / physiopathology
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / therapy
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / transmission
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Hydroxychloroquine