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      The COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for the cytology laboratory

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      , MD, MIAC
      Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology
      Elsevier
      coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, cytology, pathology education

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          The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The infection has predominantly respiratory transmission and is transmitted through large droplets or aerosols, and less commonly by contact with infected surfaces or fomites. The alarming spread of the infection and the severe clinical disease that it may cause, have led to the widespread institution of social distancing measures. Due to repeated exposure to potentially infectious patients and specimens, healthcare and laboratory personnel are particularly susceptible to contract COVID-19. This review paper provides an assessment of the current state of knowledge about the disease and its pathology, and the potential presence of the virus in cytology specimens. It also discusses the measures that cytology laboratories can take to function during the pandemic, and minimize the risk to their personnel, trainees and pathologists. In addition, it explores potential means to continue to educate trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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          Journal
          J Am Soc Cytopathol
          J Am Soc Cytopathol
          Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology
          Elsevier
          2213-2945
          2213-2945
          26 March 2020
          26 March 2020
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          Affiliations
          [1]Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood IL
          Author notes
          []Corresponding author:Stefan E. Pambuccian, MD Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Loyola University Medical Center 2160 S 1st Ave, Maywood, IL 60153 Phone: (708) 327 2295 (direct) or (708) 327 2618 (secretary) Fax: (708) 327 620 spambuccian@ 123456lumc.edu
          Article
          S2213-2945(20)30045-4
          10.1016/j.jasc.2020.03.001
          7104051
          32284276
          f4500248-07a5-4cd8-bd07-3ca6a6eac973
          © 2020 American Society of Cytopathology. Published by Elsevier Inc.

          Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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          : 23 March 2020
          : 23 March 2020
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          coronavirus,covid-19,sars-cov-2,cytology,pathology education

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