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cord-291467-vv2lrx2p	Qing, Huiling	The possibility of COVID‐19 transmission from eye to nose	2020-03-18		.txt	text/plain	526	41	62	T he Coronavirus Disease 2019 , caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is not only spreading throughout China but has reached more than 20 countries and has already posed threats to global health and economy. The reason is that although a small number of COVID-19 patients have conjunctivitis, not all of them show positive test of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in conjunctival sac swabs. In addition, some patients did not have conjunctivitis despite positive test results for the SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in their conjunctiva sac swabs (Dr. Yanping Song from Wuhan City, China, the outbreak area in China, unpublished paper). Studies show that, like the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that caused SARS, SARS-CoV-2 binds to human angiotensin-enzyme II (ACE2), using it as a cell entry receptor to invade respiratory and lung epithelium through the spike (S) protein (Zhou et al., 2020a (Zhou et al., ,2020b .	./cache/cord-291467-vv2lrx2p.txt	./txt/cord-291467-vv2lrx2p.txt