| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T41 |
0-26 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Literature search strategy |
| T42 |
27-307 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A literature search was conducted on 15 April 2020 in the Scopus database using the search terms ‘coronavirus’ AND ‘conjunctiv*’ OR ‘cornea’ OR ‘ocular surface’, which yielded 91 documents; and ‘SARS’ AND ‘conjunctiv*’ OR ‘cornea’ OR ‘ocular surface’, which yielded 189 documents. |
| T43 |
308-572 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Further references were obtained by searching for keywords ‘ACE2’ AND ‘conjunctiv*’ OR ‘cornea’ OR ‘ocular surface’, which yielded two documents; and ‘Angiotensin converting enzyme‐2’ AND ‘conjunctiv*’ OR ‘cornea’ OR ‘ocular surface’, which yielded five documents. |
| T44 |
573-738 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The abstracts of all these documents were read, and those dealing with any coronavirus and the ocular surface tissues or conjunctivitis were downloaded and reviewed. |
| T45 |
739-892 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In addition, the references contained in these downloaded documents were examined for other sources of information that would be pertinent to the review. |
| T46 |
893-1213 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In cases where documents were available with abstracts only in English but the full paper only in Chinese, if the abstract was thought to be pertinent, the paper was translated initially by Google Translate (https://translate.google.com.au) and then by Dr Renxun Chen, (University of New South Wales) for further review. |
