Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection

The recently discovered SARS-CoV2 virus produces a influenza like illness named Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The usual presentation is with upper/lower respiratory tract symptoms and rarely gastrointestinal symptoms. Although some of the clinical features of this novel disease like fever, dr...

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Autores principales: Mohindra, Ritin, Sainath, K. Gowri, Kanta, Poonam, Singh, Mini P., Goyal, Kapil, Lakshmi, P. V. M., Bhalla, Ashish, Suri, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110869
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_685_20
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author Mohindra, Ritin
Sainath, K. Gowri
Kanta, Poonam
Singh, Mini P.
Goyal, Kapil
Lakshmi, P. V. M.
Bhalla, Ashish
Suri, Vikas
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Sainath, K. Gowri
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description The recently discovered SARS-CoV2 virus produces a influenza like illness named Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The usual presentation is with upper/lower respiratory tract symptoms and rarely gastrointestinal symptoms. Although some of the clinical features of this novel disease like fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath have been well documented in literature, we report hitherto infrequently reported clinical features of this disease, namely Anosmia and Ageusia.
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spelling pubmed-75866012020-10-26 Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection Mohindra, Ritin Sainath, K. Gowri Kanta, Poonam Singh, Mini P. Goyal, Kapil Lakshmi, P. V. M. Bhalla, Ashish Suri, Vikas J Family Med Prim Care Case Report The recently discovered SARS-CoV2 virus produces a influenza like illness named Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The usual presentation is with upper/lower respiratory tract symptoms and rarely gastrointestinal symptoms. Although some of the clinical features of this novel disease like fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath have been well documented in literature, we report hitherto infrequently reported clinical features of this disease, namely Anosmia and Ageusia. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586601/ /pubmed/33110869 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_685_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Mohindra, Ritin
Sainath, K. Gowri
Kanta, Poonam
Singh, Mini P.
Goyal, Kapil
Lakshmi, P. V. M.
Bhalla, Ashish
Suri, Vikas
Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title_full Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title_fullStr Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title_full_unstemmed Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title_short Anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection
title_sort anosmia and ageusia as presenting complaints of coronavirus disease (covid-19) infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110869
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_685_20
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