Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2020)

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

  • Jiufeng Sun,
  • Jianpeng Xiao,
  • Ruilin Sun,
  • Xi Tang,
  • Chumin Liang,
  • Huifang Lin,
  • Lilian Zeng,
  • Jianxiong Hu,
  • Runyu Yuan,
  • Pingping Zhou,
  • Jinju Peng,
  • Qianlin Xiong,
  • Fengfu Cui,
  • Zhe Liu,
  • Jing Lu,
  • Junzhang Tian,
  • Wenjun Ma,
  • Changwen Ke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.201097
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 8
pp. 1834 – 1838

Abstract

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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.

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