{"id":3196,"date":"2021-01-13T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:10:48","slug":"duration-and-key-determinants-of-infectious-virus-shedding-in-hospitalized-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/duration-and-key-determinants-of-infectious-virus-shedding-in-hospitalized-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Duration and Key Determinants of Infectious Virus Shedding in Hospitalized Patients with Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study of 129 hospitalized individuals who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 by RT-PCR detected infectious virus shedding by viral culture in 23 patients (18%), with infectious virus shedding for a median of 8 days after onset of symptoms. Multivariate analyses identified viral loads above 7 log<sub>10<\/sub>\u00a0RNA copies\/mL as independently associated with isolation of infectious SARS-CoV-2 from the respiratory tract (OR = 14.7). A serum neutralizing antibody titer of at least 1:20 was independently associated with a lack of infectious SARS-CoV-2 shedding (OR = 0.01).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>van Kampen et al. (Dec 11, 2021). Duration and Key Determinants of Infectious Virus Shedding in Hospitalized Patients with Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). Nature Communications. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-20568-4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-20568-4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of 129 hospitalized individuals who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 by RT-PCR detected infectious virus shedding by viral culture in 23 patients (18%), with infectious virus shedding for a median of 8 days after onset of symptoms. Multivariate analyses identified viral loads above 7 log10\u00a0RNA copies\/mL as independently associated with isolation of infectious&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/duration-and-key-determinants-of-infectious-virus-shedding-in-hospitalized-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antibodies","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}