Possible link between anosmia and COVID-19: sniffing out the truth

Annalisa Marinosci¹, Basile N Landis², Alexandra Calmy^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland. annalisa.marinosci@hcuge.ch.
² Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Annalisa Marinosci et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;277(7):2149-2150.

doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-05966-0. Epub 2020 Apr 17.

Annalisa Marinosci¹, Basile N Landis², Alexandra Calmy^{3

4}

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland. annalisa.marinosci@hcuge.ch.
² Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

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