Occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Intraocular Milieu

Overview

Journal Exp Eye Res

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2020 Sep 29

PMID 32991885

Citations 10

Authors

Wolfgang List

Peter Regitnig

Karl Kashofer

Gregor Gorkiewicz

Martin Zacharias

Andreas Wedrich

Laura Posch-Pertl

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the intraocular occurrence of SARS-CoV-2. In postmortem examinations, aqueous humor and the vitreous samples were collected. All individuals were previously positive in nasopharyngeal swabbing and cause of death was respiratory failure due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Testing was done using quantitative RT-PCR. We included 16 aqueous humor and 16 vitreous samples for PCR testing. None of the results was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Human GAPDH genes to verify the presence of RNA was present in all aqueous humor samples (16/16, 100%) and 15/16 (93.8%) vitreous samples. In conclusion, this case series found no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in the intraocular milieu.

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