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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) induced a worldwide pandemic. The main clinical manifestations of COVID-19 patients have been fever, cough, dyspnea, and other respiratory symptoms. However, some patients’ initial symptoms have been nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, and SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be found in their stool samples. Studies have shown that the gastrointestinal tract highly-expressed angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is used by SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells. Therefore, exploring the damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 to the gastrointestinal tract and whether it could replicate in the gastrointestinal tract and transmit through fecal-oral route has significance for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of COVID-19. We combined the current clinical data about COVID-19 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms as well as its pathogenic mechanism and prevention methods herein to review the relationship between the disease and gastrointestinal symptoms. |
