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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2020

Ocular Involvement in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Up-to-Date Information on Its Manifestation, Testing, Transmission, and Prevention.

Ziyan Chen, Gang Yuan, Fang Duan, Kaili Wu

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Ocular Involvement of SARS-CoV-2 in a Polish Cohort of COVID-19-Positive Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Article
  6. Value of anal swabs for SARS-COV-2 detection: a literature review.International journal of medical sciences · 2021
    Review
  7. Concurrent and Post COVID-19 Ophthalmological Implications.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021
    Article
  8. Wuhan to World: The COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ziyan ChenState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Gang YuanDepartment of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Fang DuanState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Kaili WuState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Sun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is still underway. An understanding of the virus's mode of transmission and infection is required for its effective containment. Besides the respiratory and digestive tracts, the ocular surface presents an additional mucosal surface that is exposed to infectious droplets and direct/indirect contact. The relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the eye remains controversial. This review examines up-to-date information on ocular manifestation, laboratory testing, transmission, and prevention of COVID-19. Based on clinical observations, the risk of conjunctivitis in COVID-19 is low. Despite the low incidence, positive SARS-CoV-2 results in eye specimens suggest that the ocular surface may harbor SARS-CoV-2, which may increase the infection and transmission risk. We conclude that the ocular surface remains a potential transmission route for the virus that should not be ignored. In addition, the intraocular findings have also been described in COVID-19. The measures for eye and face protection should be widely adopted to stem the tide of the pandemic.

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conjunctivitisCOVID-19manifestationocular surfacepreventionSARS-CoV-2testingtransmission

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PMID33330528
PMCPMC7734131
OpenAlexW3107735944

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