Evaluation of coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of patients with SARSCoV‐2 infection

J Xia, J Tong, M Liu, Y Shen… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
SARS-CoV-2 existed in tears and conjunctival secretions in NCP patients with
conjunctivitis. … The present study assessed the tears and conjunctival secretions in SARS-CoV-2-infected …

Detecting SARSCoV‐2 RNA in conjunctival secretions: Is it a valuable diagnostic method of COVID‐19?

N Güemes‐Villahoz, B Burgos‐Blasco… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in tears and conjunctival secretions has been … of
SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctival swab specimens of COVID-19 patients with and without conjunctivitis to …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through the ocular surface and its detection in tears and conjunctival secretions: a review

N Güemes-Villahoz, B Burgos-Blasco… - Advances in …, 2020 - Springer
conjunctival swabs for SARS-CoV-2 over a period of 5 days until day 18 of his illness [9].
Similarly, in a case from Italy, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in conjunctival secretionsvirus

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the tears and conjunctival secretions of Coronavirus disease 2019 patients

H Kaya, A Çalışkan, M Okul, T Sarı… - The Journal of Infection in …, 2020 - jidc.org
… the tear and conjunctival secretions of COVID-19 patients … virus in tears and conjunctival
secretions is important for understanding the potential diverse transmission routes for this virus. …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctival secretions from patients without ocular symptoms

X Li, JFW Chan, KKW Li, EYK Tso, CCY Yip, S Sridhar… - Infection, 2021 - Springer
… In our study, we identified SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in the conjunctival secretions of 4
of 49 (8.2%) patients without ocular symptoms. The apparently higher rate in this study than in …

[HTML][HTML] Conjunctiva is not a preferred gateway of entry for SARSCoV‐2 to infect respiratory tract

Z Liu, CB Sun - Journal of Medical Virology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… , 2 SARSCoV‐2 in tears and conjunctival secretions may come from the secretion of lacrimal
glands and conjunctival epithelial cells, or even fomites transmitted onto ocular surface via …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus disease 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) and colonization of ocular tissues and secretions: a systematic review

F Aiello, G Gallo Afflitto, R Mancino, JPO Li, M Cesareo… - Eye, 2020 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 may use ocular structure as an additional transmission route, as … patients’
conjunctival secretion and tears positivity to reverse transcriptase-PCR SARS-CoV-2-RNA assay. …

SARS-CoV-2 isolation from ocular secretions of a patient with COVID-19 in Italy with prolonged viral RNA detection

F Colavita, D Lapa, F Carletti, E Lalle… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
… , SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in conjunctival secretions collected from the only patient
with conjunctivitis … to evaluate the infectious potential of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in the …

[HTML][HTML] Haemorrhagic conjunctivitis with pseudomembranous related to SARS-CoV-2

V Navel, F Chiambaretta, F Dutheil - American journal of ophthalmology …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Considering that SARS-CoV-2 is present in tears and conjunctival secretions, external ocular
infections could be factors of infectious spreading. Physicians should be aware of late (>2 …

The presence of SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctival secretions of COVID-19 patients

E Ciloglu, NC Dogan, E Ozdemir, H Kaya… - Ocular Immunology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… hyperemia has been said to be more prominent, and conjunctival discharge less so in the
early … current study was mild conjunctival hyperemia and watery discharge. Other than artificial …