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Item Anosmia en el contexto de la infección por Covid-19, una revisión bibliográfica(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2021) Arroyo Guerrero, Eidyn Bolena ; Balanta Guevara, Ludwing Efrén; Castrillón Diaz, Sindy Dayan; Ortega Arce, Dina Carmenza (Directora)Introduction: Studies carried out since the beginning of the pandemic have established that one of the initial symptoms of the disease is related to alterations of smell "anosmia". Reports of cases of contagion globally state that some individuals manifested anosmia suddenly, isolated and without nasal congestion, and those later days were positive cases for COVID-19, this being the clearest symptom currently taken into account to detect the virus immediately. Objectives: To carry out a bibliographic review of the relationship of SARS-CoV-2 infection and anosmia as an initial and determining symptom for its diagnosis. Materials and methods: Through a bibliographic review of articles published during 2021-2021, the Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, Central Biomed database used DeCS/MeSH keywords in Spanish and English, managing to find an average of 145 articles of which only 24 met the inclusion criteria, under the methodology proposed by Ganong. Results: The articles found in the databases were 145, of which 115 were excluded, the selected articles were 23, Science Direct (9), PubMed (7), Google Scholar (5) Scopus (2), which were characterized by bibliographic reviews, prospective, cross-sectional, case-control studies, experimental and retrospective observational analysis, from India, the United States, France, Spain Conclusion: Taking into account the selection of the articles, Anosmia was evidenced as an initial and predictive symptom in the diagnosis of COVID-19 being in turn an indicator of good prognosis, because the majority of patients who presented anosmia are those who had the lowest proportion of serious complications, as well as greater prevalence was identified in women and patients with some type of comor.