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. 2022 Apr;28 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):908-911.
doi: 10.1111/odi.13526. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

Is povidone iodine mouthwash effective against SARS-CoV-2? First in vivo tests

Lucía Martínez Lamas  1 , Pedro Diz Dios  2 , Maria Teresa Pérez Rodríguez  3 , Victor Del Campo Pérez  4 , Jorge Julio Cabrera Alvargonzalez  1 , Ana María López Domínguez  3 , Javier Fernandez Feijoo  2 , Marcio Diniz Freitas  2 , Jacobo Limeres Posse  2
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Is povidone iodine mouthwash effective against SARS-CoV-2? First in vivo tests

Lucía Martínez Lamas et al. Oral Dis. 2022 Apr.
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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; aerosol; coronavirus; mouthwash; povidone iodine.

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SARS‐CoV‐2 viral load in saliva samples at baseline and after performing a povidone iodine mouthwash. Basal: before mouthwash; P‐M: postmouthwash; min: minute; h: hour. For this figure, specimens with undetected viral load were assigned a value of 100 copies/ml
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