Prolonged Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Body Fluids

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Sun, Jiufeng ; Xiao, Jianpeng ; Sun, Ruilin ; Tang, Xi ; Liang, Chumin ; Lin, Huifang ; Zeng, Lilian ; Hu, Jianxiong ; Yuan, Runyu ; Zhou, Pingping ; Peng, Jinju ; Xiong, Qianlin ; Cui, Fengfu ; Liu, Zhe ; Lu, Jing ; Tian, Junzhang ; Ma, Wenjun ; Ke, Changwen
• Description:
  We prospectively assessed 49 coronavirus disease cases in Guangdong, China, to estimate the frequency and duration of detectable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in human body fluids. The prolonged persistence of virus RNA in various body fluids may guide the clinical diagnosis and prevention of onward virus transmission.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Betacoronavirus Child Child, Preschool Clinical Laboratory Techniques Coronavirus Infections Covid-19 Feces Female Hospitalization Humans Infant Male Middle Aged Nasopharynx Pandemics Pharynx Pneumonia, Viral Prospective Studies Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral Severity Of Illness Index Sputum Time Factors

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 26(8):1834-1838
• Pubmed ID:
  32383638
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7392422
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5d0641b288065f8113d58f39e146fc521f098c94e17342838096cbe19a4bc05c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/91564/cdc_91564_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.48 MB ]