{"id":5124,"date":"2021-02-25T20:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:41:20","slug":"sars-cov-2-detection-and-genomic-sequencing-from-hospital-surface-samples-collected-at-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/25\/sars-cov-2-detection-and-genomic-sequencing-from-hospital-surface-samples-collected-at-uc-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Genomic Sequencing from Hospital Surface Samples Collected at UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Environmental samples (n=224) collected from COVID-19 patient serving and staff congregation areas in a university hospital in California between April and August 2020 identified 11 samples positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, with a smaller proportion of positive samples (2% vs 11%) detected over time as improved cleaning and patient management practices were implemented.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>None of the samples were capable of infectivity based on cell culture. Genomic sequencing of positive samples showed that some had near-complete genome sequences which suggest that RNA in the samples were either not associated with intact virions, or they were present in insufficient numbers for infectivity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Coil et al.\u00a0(Feb 24, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Genomic Sequencing from Hospital Surface Samples Collected at UC Davis. Pre-print downloaded Feb 25 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.23.21252022\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.23.21252022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Environmental samples (n=224) collected from COVID-19 patient serving and staff congregation areas in a university hospital in California between April and August 2020 identified 11 samples positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, with a smaller proportion of positive samples (2% vs 11%) detected over time as improved cleaning and patient management practices were implemented.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/25\/sars-cov-2-detection-and-genomic-sequencing-from-hospital-surface-samples-collected-at-uc-davis\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5124","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\/5124","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=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}