• Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm. · May 2021

    Evaluation of Nasopharyngeal and Conjunctival Swab Samples of Hospitalised Patients with Confirmed COVID-19.

    • Özkan Kocamış, Kemal Örnek, Nazife Aşıkgarip, Lokman Hızmalı, Fikriye Milletli Sezgin, and Yahya Şahin.
    • Department of Opthalmology, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University School of Medicine, Kırşehir, Turkey.
    • Ocul. Immunol. Inflamm. 2021 May 19; 29 (4): 634-637.

    PurposeTo evaluate the results of conjunctival and nasopharyngeal swab tests in patients with confirmed COVID-19.MethodsThis prospective study included 45 patients who were hospitalized for confirmed COVID-19. Nasopharyngeal swab samples were obtained from the patients before hospitalization. Only one eye of each patient was randomly selected for-conjunctival sampling. All participants underwent a complete slit-lamp examination. Conjunctival and nasopharyngeal swab samples were analyzed by reversetranscriptase-polymerase-chain reaction (RT-PCR).ResultsTwenty seven (60%) of the patients were male and 18 (40%) were female. Conjunctival swab was positive in only one (2.22%) patient. None of the COVID-19 patients showed ocular changes and symptoms. There were no abnormalities of the ocular surface, anterior chamber or posterior segment at slit-lamp examination.ConclusionsThe RT-PCR was not high positive in the conjunctiva as in nasopharyngeal swabs. Ocular changes were not common in COVID-19 patients.

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