HISTOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF LUNGS IN CASE OF DEATH IN COVID PANDEMIC OUTBREAK – AN AUTOPSY STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE.
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The Coronaviridae viral family typically causes respiratory disease in human are enveloped virus comprising single-stranded RNA. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed a pandemic in the form of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-which led to a major health disaster all over the world.
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Dr Pradeep Kumar L.
Asst. prof. Dept. of Pathology, concepts, design, data acquisition, manuscript preparation, SIMS, Shivamogga, Karnataka state.
Dr Veena S.
Asst. prof. Dept. of Pathology, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript editing, SIMS, Shivamogga, Karnataka state.
Dr Ramesh Babu K.
Prof. & HOD Dept. of Pathology, definition of intellectual contents, experimental studies, SIMS, Shivamogga, Karnataka state.