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cord-311358-nrj4aysh	Peng, Yuzhu	Is novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) transmitted through conjunctiva?	2020-03-16		.txt	text/plain	346	35	58	In theory, the premise for transmission through conjunctiva is that SARS-CoV-2 can replicate in conjunctival epithelia. 7 Currently it is unknown whether conjunctival epithelia can express ACE2. However, oral, nasal, and nasopharyngeal epithelia do not express ACE2, 8 which can explain that most of the COVID-19 patients did not have upper respiratory symptoms. It has been proposed that ''2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular surface must not be ignored'' based on the nosocomial infection of some ophthalmologists and an expert who wore an N95 mask but did not wear anything to protect his eyes was infected with SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, the inEvaluation of coronavirus in tears and conjunctival secretions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China Clinical characteristics of 50466 hospitalized patients with 2019-nCoV infection	./cache/cord-311358-nrj4aysh.txt	./txt/cord-311358-nrj4aysh.txt