Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients

TY - JOUR

T1 - Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients

AU - Seah, Ivan Yu Jun

AU - Anderson, Danielle E.

AU - Kang, Adrian Eng Zheng

AU - Wang, Linfa

AU - Rao, Pooja

AU - Young, Barnaby Edward

AU - Lye, David Chien

AU - Agrawal, Rupesh

N1 - Funding Information: This project was funded as part of the Duke-NUS Signature Research Programme, funded by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, and the National Medical Research Council under its COVID-19 Research Fund (NMRC Project No. COVID19RF-001). Funding Information: The authors thank all scientific staff who assisted with processing clinical samples in the Duke-NUS Medical School ABSL3 facility, especially Velraj Sivalingam and Randy Foo. The study was supported by the team of physicians, researchers, and nursing staff at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases. In particular, the authors thank research assistants Ding Ying and Shiau Hui Dong, who assisted with clinical data collection. Funding Information: This project was funded as part of the Duke-NUS Signature Research Programme, funded by the Ministry of Health , Singapore, Republic of Singapore, and the National Medical Research Council under its COVID-19 Research Fund (NMRC Project No. COVID19RF-001 ).

PY - 2020/7

Y1 - 2020/7

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U2 - 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.026

DO - 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.03.026

M3 - Article

C2 - 32291098

AN - SCOPUS:85083057862

SN - 0161-6420

VL - 127

SP - 977

EP - 979

JO - Ophthalmology

JF - Ophthalmology

IS - 7

ER -