Authors: Valentina Parma, Kathrin Ohla, Maria G Veldhuizen, Masha Y Niv, Christine E Kelly, Alyssa J Bakke, Keiland W Cooper, Cédric Bouysset, Nicola Pirastu, Michele Dibattista, Rishemjit Kaur, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Marta Y Pepino, Veronika Schöpf, Veronica Pereda-Loth, Shannon B Olsson, Richard C Gerkin, Paloma Rohlfs Domínguez, Javier Albayay, Michael C Farruggia, Surabhi Bhutani, Alexander W Fjaeldstad, Ritesh Kumar, Anna Menini, Moustafa Bensafi, Mari Sandell, Iordanis Konstantinidis, Antonella Di Pizio, Federica Genovese, Lina Öztürk, Thierry Thomas-Danguin, Johannes Frasnelli, Sanne Boesveldt, Özlem Saatci, Luis R Saraiva, Cailu Lin, Jérôme Golebiowski, Liang-Dar Hwang, Mehmet Hakan Ozdener, Maria Dolors Guàrdia, Christophe Laudamiel, Marina Ritchie, Jan Havlícek, Denis Pierron, Eugeni Roura, Marta Navarro, Alissa A Nolden, Juyun Lim, Katherine L Whitcroft, Lauren R Colquitt, Camille Ferdenzi, Evelyn V Brindha, Aytug Altundag, Alberto Macchi, Alexia Nunez-Parra, Zara M Patel, Sébastien Fiorucci, Carl M Philpott, Barry C Smith, Johan N Lundström, Carla Mucignat, Jane K Parker, Mirjam van den Brink, Michael Schmuker, Florian Ph S Fischmeister, Thomas Heinbockel, Vonnie D C Shields, Farhoud Faraji, Enrique Santamaría, William E A Fredborg, Gabriella Morini, Jonas K Olofsson, Maryam Jalessi, Noam Karni, Anna D’Errico, Rafieh Alizadeh, Robert Pellegrino, Pablo Meyer, Caroline Huart, Ben Chen, Graciela M Soler, Mohammed K Alwashahi, Antje Welge-Lüssen, Jessica Freiherr, Jasper H B de Groot, Hadar Klein, Masako Okamoto, Preet Bano Singh, Julien W Hsieh, Olagunju Abdulrahman, Pamela Dalton, Carol H Yan, Vera V Voznessenskaya, Jingguo Chen, Elizabeth A Sell, Julie Walsh-Messinger, Nicholas S Archer, Sachiko Koyama, Vincent Deary, S Craig Roberts, Hüseyin Yanık, Samet Albayrak, Lenka Martinec Nováková, Ilja Croijmans, Patricia Portillo Mazal, Shima T Moein, Eitan Margulis, Coralie Mignot, Sajidxa Mariño, Dejan Georgiev, Pavan K Kaushik, Bettina Malnic, Hong Wang, Shima Seyed-Allaei, Nur Yoluk, Sara Razzaghi-Asl, Jeb M Justice, Diego Restrepo, Danielle R Reed, Thomas Hummel, Steven D Munger, John E Hayes

Venue: Chemical Senses

Type: Article

Abstract: Recent anecdotal and scientific reports have provided evidence of a link between COVID-19 and chemosensory impairments, such as anosmia. However, these reports have downplayed or failed to distinguish potential effects on taste, ignored chemesthesis, and generally lacked quantitative measurements. Here, we report the development, implementation, and initial results of a multilingual, international questionnaire to assess self-reported quantity and quality of perception in 3 distinct chemosensory modalities (smell, taste, and chemesthesis) befor... (read more)

DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa041