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ArticleJournal of medical virology2020

Conjunctiva is not a preferred gateway of entry for SARS-CoV-2 to infect respiratory tract.

Zhe Liu, Chuan-Bin Sun

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Article in Journal of medical virology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Conjunctivitis and COVID-19: A meta-analysis.Journal of medical virology · 2020
    Pooled it
  2. COVID-19: Ophthalmological Aspects of the SARS-CoV 2 Global Pandemic.Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde · 2020
    Pooled it
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  9. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis.Korean journal of family medicine · 2021
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  14. Ocular Involvement of SARS-CoV-2 in a Polish Cohort of COVID-19-Positive Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  15. Eyes on coronavirus.Stem cell research · 2021
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  17. Digital PCR is a sensitive new technique for SARS-CoV-2 detection in clinical applications.Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhe LiuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Chuan-Bin SunDivision of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Eye Center, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2767-6858

Funding

Ophthalmology Star Program of Shenyang Ophthalmic Industrial Technology Institute, China QMX2019-01-001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Pneumonia, ViralBodily SecretionsConjunctivaHumansPandemicsPatientsRespiratory SystemSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32275082
PMCPMC7262346

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