Smell dysfunction: a biomarker for COVID‐19

Shima T. Moein, S. Hashemian, Babak Mansourafshar, Ali Khorram-Tousi, P. Tabarsi, R. Doty

International forum of allergy & rhinology, 2020

Severe acute respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), is responsible for the largest pandemic since the 1918 influenza A virus subtype H1N1 influenza outbreak. The symptoms presently recognized by the World Health Organization are cough, fever, tiredness, and difficulty breathing. Patient‐reported smell and taste loss has been associated with COVID‐19 infection, yet no empirical olfactory testing on a cohort of COVID‐19 patients has been performed.

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Field of study: Medicine

10.1002/alr.22587