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. 2023 Jan;86(1):e8-e9.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.08.036. Epub 2022 Sep 3.

Parallel reduction in the prevalence of Bell's palsy, idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and viral infection diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

Estela Patapnyan  1 , Ohad Ronen  2
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Parallel reduction in the prevalence of Bell's palsy, idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and viral infection diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

Estela Patapnyan et al. J Infect. 2023 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Bell's palsy; COVID-19; Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss; quarantine; viral infection.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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Fig 1:
Fig. 1
Annual incidences of ISSHL and BP and the control groups between the years 2018-2019 and 2020. The left axis represents the research group (ISSHL, BP) while the right axis represents the control group (acute respiratory infections, acute appendicitis).
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