Is Olfactory Testing a Useful Diagnostic Tool to Identify SARS-CoV-2 Infections Early? A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis.

Christiana GrafInken WagenerKatharina Grikscheit Sebastian HoehlAnnemarie BergerNils WetzsteinJulia DietzGeorg DultzFlorian MichaelNatalie FilmannEva Herrmann Peter TinnemannUdo GoetschSandra Ciesek

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2023)

OD is common in COVID-19 negative and positive tested patients with significantly different prevalence rates observed between different variants. Diagnostic accuracy of OD is not high enough to implement olfactory testing as a tool in diagnostic routine to early identify patients with a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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