Otorhinolaryngology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Internal Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Rhinology. 2020 Jun 1;58(3):302-303. doi: 10.4193/Rhin20.140.
According to WHO recommendations, everyone must protect themselves against Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which will also protect others. Due to the lack of current effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19, screening, rapid diagnosis and isolation of the patients are essential (1, 2). Therefore, identifying the early symptoms of COVID-19 is of particular importance and is a health system priority. Early studies from COVID-19 outbreak in China have illustrated several non-specific signs and symptoms in infected patients, including fever, dry cough, dyspnea, myalgia, fatigue, lymphopenia, and radiographic evidence of pneumonia (3, 4). Recently, a probability of association between COVID-19 and altered olfactory function has been reported in South Korea, Iran, Italy, France, UK and the United States (5-8). However, to our knowledge, the definite association between COVID-19 and anosmia has not been published.
根据世界卫生组织的建议，每个人都必须保护自己免受 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的侵害，这也将保护他人。由于目前缺乏针对 COVID-19 的有效治疗和疫苗，因此筛查、快速诊断和隔离患者至关重要（1,2）。因此，识别 COVID-19 的早期症状尤为重要，是卫生系统的优先事项。来自中国 COVID-19 爆发的早期研究表明，感染患者存在几种非特异性症状和体征，包括发热、干咳、呼吸困难、肌痛、乏力、淋巴细胞减少症和肺部影像学证据（3,4）。最近，有研究报道称 COVID-19 与嗅觉功能改变之间存在关联，这些研究分别来自韩国、伊朗、意大利、法国、英国和美国（5-8）。然而，据我们所知，COVID-19 与嗅觉丧失的确切关联尚未发表。
