The Malnutritional Status of the Host as a Virulence Factor for New Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Apr 23:7:146. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00146. eCollection 2020.

Matteo Briguglio¹, Fabrizio Ernesto Pregliasco^{2

3}, Giovanni Lombardi^{4

5}, Paolo Perazzo⁶, Giuseppe Banfi^{1

7}

¹ IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Scientific Direction, Milan, Italy.
² Health Management, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Laboratory of Experimental Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Athletics, Strength and Conditioning, Poznań University of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland.
⁶ Post-operative Intensive Care Unit & Anesthesia, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; host pathogen interactions; infections; nutritional status; quality of health care; virulence.