CONJUNCTIVITIS PRESENTING AS SOLE SYMPTOM OF COVID-19

Neha Thakur and Dr. Pranidhi Sharda*

ABSTRACT

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel virus causing an ongoing pandemic in 2020. Although the symptomatic patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 generally show respiratory distress, atypical manifestations such as conjunctivitis are also observed. A series of cases are reported in which reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing on tears had demonstrated the presence of the virus. In this case report, we present a case where conjunctivitis was the sole symptom of Covid19 infection.

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