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Progressive CT findings and positive RT-PCR again of recovered and discharged patients with COVID-19

JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE (2020)

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JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE

Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 3439-3441

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AME PUBLISHING COMPANY

DOI: 10.21037/jtd-20-1417

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National Natural Science Foundation of China [81625011, 81771917, 91859206]
National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFA0704000]
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [ZDBS-LY-JSC004]

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