COVID-19 and ophthalmology: an underappreciated occupational hazard

The proximity required of a thorough biomicroscopic slit-lamp examination may put ophthalmologists at increased risk for respiratory-borne infection with SARS-CoV-2. Conjunctivitis has been described in a few patients with COVID-19 and other coronavirus syndromes. Although SARS-CoV-2 has been detect...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Irene C., O’Brien, Terrence P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7256213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32412403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.238
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description The proximity required of a thorough biomicroscopic slit-lamp examination may put ophthalmologists at increased risk for respiratory-borne infection with SARS-CoV-2. Conjunctivitis has been described in a few patients with COVID-19 and other coronavirus syndromes. Although SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in the conjunctival secretions or tears of patients with COVID-19 and conjunctivitis, transmission of infection through respiratory droplets to ophthalmologists without eye protection or masks may be the bigger concern.
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spelling pubmed-72562132020-05-29 COVID-19 and ophthalmology: an underappreciated occupational hazard Kuo, Irene C. O’Brien, Terrence P. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication The proximity required of a thorough biomicroscopic slit-lamp examination may put ophthalmologists at increased risk for respiratory-borne infection with SARS-CoV-2. Conjunctivitis has been described in a few patients with COVID-19 and other coronavirus syndromes. Although SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in the conjunctival secretions or tears of patients with COVID-19 and conjunctivitis, transmission of infection through respiratory droplets to ophthalmologists without eye protection or masks may be the bigger concern. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7256213/ /pubmed/32412403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.238 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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