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Prevalence of anosmia among COVID-19 patients in Taif City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Adnan A. Mubaraki, Ghaida T. Alrbaiai, Afnan K. Sibyani, Rahaf M. Alhulayfi, Reema S. Alzaidi and Haneen S. Almalki
Saudi Medical Journal January 2021, 42 (1) 38-43; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25588
Adnan A. Mubaraki
From the Department of Medicine (Mubaraki); and from the College of Medicine (Alrbaiai, Sibyani, Alhulayfi, Alzaidi, Almalki), Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ghaida T. Alrbaiai
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Afnan K. Sibyani
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Rahaf M. Alhulayfi
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Reema S. Alzaidi
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Haneen S. Almalki
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vol. 42 no. 1 38-43
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25588
PubMed 
33399169

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 10, 2020
  • Accepted November 23, 2020
  • Published online January 25, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Adnan A. Mubaraki, MD,
  2. Ghaida T. Alrbaiai, Medical Student⇑,
  3. Afnan K. Sibyani, Medical Student,
  4. Rahaf M. Alhulayfi, Medical Student,
  5. Reema S. Alzaidi, Medical Student and
  6. Haneen S. Almalki, Medical Student
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Mubaraki); and from the College of Medicine (Alrbaiai, Sibyani, Alhulayfi, Alzaidi, Almalki), Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ghaida T. Alrbaiai, College of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ghaidaturkii{at}outlook.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2979-3652
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Saudi Medical Journal Jan 2021, 42 (1) 38-43; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2021.1.25588
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