id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-280518-2tl0mtb8 Xia, Jianhua Evaluation of coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of patients with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection 2020-03-12 .txt text/plain 1359 108 60 title: Evaluation of coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of patients with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the presence of novel coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of SARS–CoV‐2‐infected patients. METHODS: A prospective interventional case series study was performed, and 30 confirmed novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) patients were selected at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University from 26 January 2020 to 9 February 2020. Two samples of tear and conjunctival secretions were obtained from the only one patient with conjunctivitis yielded positive RT‐PCR results. On 7 January 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention isolated and confirmed this pathogen as a novel type of coronavirus through a throat swab. Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named 2019-nCoV severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2. Evaluation of coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection ./cache/cord-280518-2tl0mtb8.txt ./txt/cord-280518-2tl0mtb8.txt