id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-350101-t34myl7l Henrique Braz‐Silva, Paulo SARS‐CoV‐2: What can saliva tell us? 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 887 47 46 The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared on 11 March 2020 that the epidemic of the new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a pandemic now called COVID-19. Organisation (WHO) declared on 11 March 2020 that the epidemic of the new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a pandemic now called COVID-19. In addition to the diagnosis itself, the study of saliva in cases of COVID-19 will help understanding its pathogenesis, since it has been recently reported that epithelial cells of the oral cavity showed abundant expression of the angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2), a receptor playing a key role in the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into the cells (Xu et al., 2020) . Saliva as a diagnostic specimen for testing respiratory virus by a point-of-care molecular assay: A diagnostic validity study ./cache/cord-350101-t34myl7l.txt ./txt/cord-350101-t34myl7l.txt