id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-333863-mtljy3s6 Hong, Nan Evaluation of ocular symptoms and tropism of SARS‐CoV‐2 in patients confirmed with COVID‐19 2020-04-26 .txt text/plain 4033 232 53 Patients with COVID-19 may show prodromal symptom of conjunctivitis in cases where eye goggles were not worn while in close proximity with COVID-19 positive patients, leading to suggestions that ocular exposure might be a potential route of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Lu et al. Previously hospitalized patients (admission date from 19 January to 29 February 2020) in the isolation ward of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, diagnosed as COVID-19 positive based on their clinical symptoms and positive SARS-CoV-2 test results of their sputum swab specimens, were the target subject population. After the onset of COVID-19, the mean scores of the SEEQ and OSDI questionnaires were significantly raised, suggesting a degraded ocular surface condition (Table 2) . In our study, fifteen subjects (27%) reported new onset ocular irritation symptoms or aggravated pre-existing ocular surface irritation symptoms after infection of SARS-CoV-2. ./cache/cord-333863-mtljy3s6.txt ./txt/cord-333863-mtljy3s6.txt