{"id":2835,"date":"2020-12-18T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:56:16","slug":"postmortem-stability-of-sars-cov-2-in-nasopharyngeal-mucosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/postmortem-stability-of-sars-cov-2-in-nasopharyngeal-mucosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmortem Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Mucosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus is persistent in postmortem tissue. A study of SARS-CoV-2 postmortem viral RNA stability found evidence for maintained infectivity of the virus from the tissues of deceased individuals, and no time-dependent decrease in viral load. There was also no correlation between the postmortem interval (time of death until cooling at 4\u00b0C; median 17.8 hours) and the viral RNA loads of detected in deceased individuals. The authors note that the infectivity study relies on a limited number of cases and patients with severe immunosuppression, and suggest further research investigating viral persistence in individuals with longer postmortem intervals (&gt;1 week) and those exhibiting lower initial viral loads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heinrich et al. (Dec 16, 2020). Postmortem Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharyngeal Mucosa. Emerging Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/1\/20-3112\">https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/1\/20-3112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus is persistent in postmortem tissue. A study of SARS-CoV-2 postmortem viral RNA stability found evidence for maintained infectivity of the virus from the tissues of deceased individuals, and no time-dependent decrease in viral load. There was also no correlation between the postmortem interval (time of death until cooling at 4\u00b0C; median 17.8&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/18\/postmortem-stability-of-sars-cov-2-in-nasopharyngeal-mucosa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}