Presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in cornea of patients with COVID-19

What The Study Did: Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human corneas was examined in this study.

Authors: Maria Casagrande, M.D., of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.6339)

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