Anosmia in COVID-19 patients

Affiliations

¹ Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany.
² Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: dirk.wagner@uniklinik-freiburg.de.

D Hornuss et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;26(10):1426-1427.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.05.017. Epub 2020 May 22.

¹ Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany.
² Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical Centre - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: dirk.wagner@uniklinik-freiburg.de.

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