New study on prevalence of anosmia in COVID-19 implicates the D614G virus mutation as a major contributing factor to chemosensory dysfunction

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Sep;278(9):3593-3594. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06759-9. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Authors

Christopher S von Bartheld¹, Dennis Mathew², Rafal Butowt³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, 89557-0352, USA. cvonbartheld@med.unr.edu.
² Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557, USA.
³ L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anosmia
COVID-19*
Humans
Mutation
Olfaction Disorders* / etiology
Olfaction Disorders* / genetics
Prevalence
SARS-CoV-2

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