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Olfactory Dysfunction and Sinonasal Symptomatology in COVID-19: Prevalence, Severity, Timing, and Associated Characteristics.

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OD is highly prevalent during COVID-19, occurring early and severely, often in conjunction with loss of taste, and is associated negatively with older age and positively with female sex.
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ObjectiveOlfactory dysfunction (OD)—hyposmia or anosmia—is a symptom of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-C...

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Organ-specific manifestations of COVID-19 infection.

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the organ-specific systemic manifestations of COVID-19 is provided, showing that over a third of infected patients develop a broad spectrum of neurological symptoms affecting the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system and skeletal muscles, including anosmia and ageusia.
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Prevalence of Chemosensory Dysfunction in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Reveals Significant Ethnic Differences.

TL;DR: The finding of geographic differences points to two, not mutually exclusive causes: a virus mutation (D614G) may cause differing infectivity, while, at the host level, genetic, ethnicity-specific variants of the virus-binding entry proteins may facilitate virus entry in the olfactory epithelium and taste buds.
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Prevalence and 6-month recovery of olfactory dysfunction: a multicentre study of 1363 COVID-19 patients.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated prevalence and recovery of olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19 patients according to the disease severity and found that the prevalence of OD was significantly higher in mild form (85.9%) compared with moderate-to-critical forms (4.5-6.9%).
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Prevalence of Olfactory Dysfunction in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Meta-analysis of 27,492 Patients.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta‐analysis was conducted to estimate the overall pooled prevalence of olfactory dysfunction in COVID‐19 patients and found that it was higher in women than in men.
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SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients.

TL;DR: Results of an analysis of nasal and throat swabs from 17 patients in Zhuhai, China, who had received a diagnosis of Covid-19 and found SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens positive.
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SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the expression of viral entry-associated genes in single-cell RNA-sequencing data from multiple tissues from healthy human donors was investigated, and co-detected these transcripts in specific respiratory, corneal and intestinal epithelial cells, potentially explaining the high efficiency of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
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