A missing link between SARS-CoV-2 and the eye?: ACE2 expression on the ocular surface

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ² Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine I, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁴ Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Aachen-Bonn-Cologne-Duesseldorf, Cologne, Germany.