Loss of Smell in COVID-19 Patients May Arise from Virus Persisting in the Nasal Cavity (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Loss of Smell in COVID-19 Patients May Arise from Virus Persisting in the Nasal Cavity (1 of 3)

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The mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus, along with a magnified photo of its compound eye. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 5, 2021, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Blair at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL; and colleagues was titled, "COVID-19-related anosmia is associated with viral persistence and inflammation in human olfactory epithelium and brain infection in hamsters."

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[Credit: S. Blair <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2021)]

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