Postmortem Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Mucosa

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Heinrich, Fabian ; Meißner, Kira ; Langenwalder, Felicia ; Püschel, Klaus ; Nörz, Dominik ; Hoffmann, Armin ; Lütgehetmann, Marc ; Aepfelbacher, Martin ; Bibiza-Freiwald, Eric ; Pfefferle, Susanne ; Heinemann, Axel
• Description:
  Analyses of infection chains have demonstrated that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is highly transmissive. However, data on postmortem stability and infectivity are lacking. Our finding of nasopharyngeal viral RNA stability in 79 corpses showed no time-dependent decrease. Maintained infectivity is supported by virus isolation up to 35 hours postmortem.
• Subjects:
  Cadaver Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Humans Nasopharynx Respiratory Mucosa RNA, Viral SARS-CoV-2
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(1):329-331
• Pubmed ID:
  33327991
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7774572
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a63a2d5943f038e706da3361bfa44d24abc56533f51c3d6ef66261e6d251a3e4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/99988/cdc_99988_DS1.pdf
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