Can medicinal mushrooms have prophylactic or therapeutic effect against COVID-19 and its pneumonic superinfection and complicating inflammation?
Geir Hetland 1 2, Egil Johnson 2 3, Soosaipillai V Bernardshaw 4, Bjørn Grinde 5
PMID: 32657436 DOI: 10.1111/sji.12937
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