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. 2020 Aug;10(8):953-954.
doi: 10.1002/alr.22638. Epub 2020 Jul 3.

Reply to: Psychophysical olfactory testing in COVID-19: is smell function really impaired in nearly all patients?

Shima T Moein  1 , Seyed Mohammad Reza Hashemian  2 , Babak Mansourafshar  2 , Ali Khorram-Tousi  1 , Payam Tabarsi  3 , Richard L Doty  4
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Reply to: Psychophysical olfactory testing in COVID-19: is smell function really impaired in nearly all patients?

Shima T Moein et al. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2020 Aug.
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Comparison of the British and revised Persian UPSIT score in healthy subjects. Each circle represents 1 subject and the violin plots illustrate the probability density of the data at different values. The white circles indicate medians and the thick lines interquartile ranges. UPSIT = University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test.
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