Lack of direct association between oral mucosal lesions and SARS-CoV- 2 in a cohort of patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Gabriela SchwabMichelle PalmieriRodrigo M ZerbinatiDmitry José De Santana SarmentoThais ReisKarem L OrtegaItalo T KanoRafael A V CaixetaBengt HasseusDipak SapkotaRoger JungesSimone GiannecchiniAndré Luiz Ferreira CostaSumatra M C P JalesJosé A L LindosoCamila Barros GalloPaulo Henrique Braz-SilvaPublished in: Journal of oral microbiology (2022)
It is unlikely that ulcerative lesions in the oral cavity are a direct manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 or a marker of COVID-19 progression.