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Detection of coronavirus-2 by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in conjunctival swabs from patients with severe form of Coronavirus disease 2019 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mariana Akemi Matsura MisawaTatiana TanakaTomás MinelliPedro Gomes Oliveira BragaJuliana Mika KatoMichelle Soares Gomes GouvêaJoão Renato Rebello PinhoJoyce Hisae Yamamoto
Published in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2021)
This is the first study to present conjunctival swab rRT-PCR results for SARS-CoV-2 in a Brazilian population. In our sample of 50 patients with severe forms of COVID-19, 10% had positive conjunctival swabs, most of which were correlated with positive naso/oropharyngeal rRT-PCR results.
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