Abstract
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.
Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus disease; COVID-19; China; Guangdong; RNA; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; persistence; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
Publication types
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Betacoronavirus / genetics
- Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity*
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Testing
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- China / epidemiology
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods
- Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
- Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
- Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
- Feces / virology
- Female
- Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nasopharynx / virology
- Pandemics*
- Pharynx / virology
- Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
- Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
- Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
- Prospective Studies
- RNA, Viral / genetics*
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- SARS-CoV-2
- Severity of Illness Index
- Sputum / virology
- Time Factors