{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["2"],"submitter":["Snitz K"],"funding":["This study was supported by a Weizmann CoronaVirus Emergency Fund grant from Miel de Botton and a Weizmann CoronaVirus Emergency Fund grant from Sonia T. Marschak."],"pubmed_abstract":["Background
Key to curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic are wide-scale screening strategies. An ideal screen is one that would not rely on transporting, distributing, and collecting physical specimens. Given the olfactory impairment associated with COVID-19, we developed a perceptual measure of olfaction that relies on smelling household odorants and rating them online.Methods
Each participant was instructed to select 5 household items, and rate their perceived odor pleasantness and intensity using an online visual analogue scale. We used this data to assign an olfactory perceptual fingerprint, a value that reflects the perceived difference between odorants. We tested the performance of this real-time tool in a total of 13,484 participants (462 COVID-19 positive) from 134 countr"],"journal":["Communications medicine"],"pagination":["34"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9053292"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["An olfactory self-test effectively screens for COVID-19."],"pmcid":["PMC9053292"],"pubmed_authors":["Bonacchi N","Bensafi M","Poo C","Lundstrom JN","Mishor E","Arshamian A","Shushan S","Ernst G","Hummel T","Sobel N","Touhara K","Mainen Z","Weissgross R","Smeets M","Okamoto M","Dinnella C","Ferdenzi C","Snitz K","Karagach S","Marino-Sanchez F","Iravani B","Honigstein D","Harel N","Ravia A","Roth Y","Perl O","Spinelli S","Medhanie A","Monteleone E"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"An olfactory self-test effectively screens for COVID-19.","description":"Background
Key to curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic are wide-scale screening strategies. An ideal screen is one that would not rely on transporting, distributing, and collecting physical specimens. Given the olfactory impairment associated with COVID-19, we developed a perceptual measure of olfaction that relies on smelling household odorants and rating them online.Methods
Each participant was instructed to select 5 household items, and rate their perceived odor pleasantness and intensity using an online visual analogue scale. We used this data to assign an olfactory perceptual fingerprint, a value that reflects the perceived difference between odorants. We tested the performance of this real-time tool in a total of 13,484 participants (462 COVID-19 positive) from 134 countr","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-26T03:54:28.688Z","creation":"2024-11-05T22:56:38.097Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9053292","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35603293"],"doi":["10.1038/s43856-022-00095-7"]}}