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cord-328762-2b1pl8jr	Fuest, Matthias	Postmortem conjunctival and nasopharyngeal swabs in SARS‐CoV‐2 infected and uninfected patients	2020-08-06		.txt	text/plain	888	60	64	The specifity of ocular tissue/fluid in detecting SARS-CoV-2 was very low in comparison with standard sample collection from nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) (Ulhaq & Soraya 2020) . To date, no data are available on the postmortem prevalence of virus RNA in ocular and pharyngeal tissue in SARS-CoV-2 patients. Accordingly, in a prospective cohort study, potential corneal donors (uninfected with negative premortem NPS) in our institution had postmortem conjunctival (COS) and NPS taken starting March 17, 2020. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was not detected in any postmortem NPS or COS in the uninfected group. The absence of virus RNA in our postmortem swabs agrees with the literature on premortem samples, where only 3/315 COS = 0.95% (compared to NPS 604/849 = 71.1%) were positive even in symptomatic eyes, indicating that the human conjunctiva is not a typical site of SARS-CoV-2 replication (Lu et al. All these SARS-CoV-2 patients were diagnosed by premortem positive NPS.	./cache/cord-328762-2b1pl8jr.txt	./txt/cord-328762-2b1pl8jr.txt