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cord-034466-e6kg0yx9	Al-Zaidi, Haider Majid Haider	Incidence and recovery of smell and taste dysfunction in COVID-19 positive patients	2020-10-31		.txt	text/plain	1691	109	60	title: Incidence and recovery of smell and taste dysfunction in COVID-19 positive patients BACKGROUND: This study aims to find the chemosensitive dysfunction incidence in COVID-19-positive patients and its recovery. Many other recent studies found that smell and taste dysfunctions are seen frequently in COVID-19 patients [4] . All these 12/65 (18.46%) patients confirmed that they had no symptoms other than loss of sense of smell before they were tested for COVID-19, and 10/65 (15.38%) patients had taste loss in addition (Fig. 1) . In this study, chemosensitive dysfunction appeared in high percentage of the COVID-19 patients, 89.23% of patients had smell dysfunction and 83.08% had taste dysfunction [2, 6] . Sudden isolated chemosensitive dysfunction appeared in 18.46% and 15.38% for anosmia and taste loss, respectively. Olfactory and gustatory dysfunctions as a clinical presentation of mild-to-moderate forms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a multicenter European study	./cache/cord-034466-e6kg0yx9.txt	./txt/cord-034466-e6kg0yx9.txt