Postmortem conjunctival and nasopharyngeal swabs in SARS-CoV-2 infected and uninfected patients

Acta Ophthalmol. 2021 Jun;99(4):e615-e617. doi: 10.1111/aos.14559. Epub 2020 Aug 6.

Authors

Matthias Fuest¹, Peter Boor², Ruth Knuechel²; DeRegCOVID³; Peter Walter¹, Sabine Salla^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
² Department of Pathology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
³ German Registry of COVID-19 Autopsies (DeRegCOVID), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
⁴ Cornea Bank, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / virology*
Conjunctiva / virology*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nasopharynx / virology*
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*