Potential Roles of Arthropods for Transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mojtaba Limoee; Hooshyar Hossini

doi:10.5812/ijhls.118796

Potential Roles of Arthropods for Transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

authors:

Mojtaba Limoee ¹ , avatar Hooshyar Hossini ^{1
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1 Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

International Journal of Health and Life Sciences: Vol.7, issue 4; e118796

published online: October 1, 2021

article type: Letter

received: August 16, 2021

revised: August 27, 2021

accepted: September 15, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhls.118796

how to cite: Limoee M, Hossini H. Potential Roles of Arthropods for Transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). J Health Rep Technol. 2021;7(4):e118796. https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhls.118796.

Keywords

COVID-19 MERS-CoV SARS CoV-2

Footnotes

Authors' Contribution: ML, draft concept; HH, review concept.
Conflict of Interests: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article.
Ethical Approval: Ethical issues (Including plagiarism, Informed Consent, misconduct, data fabrication and/or falsification, double publication and/or submission, redundancy, etc) have been completely observed by the authors.
Funding/Support: There was no funding/support.

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