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. 2020 Jul;127(7):977-979.
doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.026. Epub 2020 Mar 24.

Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients

Ivan Yu Jun Seah  1 , Danielle E Anderson  2 , Adrian Eng Zheng Kang  2 , Linfa Wang  2 , Pooja Rao  3 , Barnaby Edward Young  4 , David Chien Lye  5 , Rupesh Agrawal  6
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Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients

Ivan Yu Jun Seah et al. Ophthalmology. 2020 Jul.
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Table showing comparison of tear samples and nasopharyngeal swab samples over the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness. Cycle threshold results of all nasopharyngeal swabs are displayed. All tear samples showed negative results on both viral isolation and reverse-transcription polymer chain reaction analysis. These results are labelled by a red box.
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  • No Time for Tears.
    Seitzman GD, Doan T. Seitzman GD, et al. Ophthalmology. 2020 Jul;127(7):980-981. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.030. Epub 2020 Mar 26. Ophthalmology. 2020. PMID: 32303374 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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