{"id":5676,"date":"2020-04-06T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:41:35","slug":"detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-in-semen-and-testicular-biopsy-specimen-of-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-in-semen-and-testicular-biopsy-specimen-of-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus in semen and testicular biopsy specimen of COVID-19 patients."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song et al conducted RT-PCR testing in semen samples from 12 patients who were in the recovery stage of COVID-19, and from a testicular tissue sample from 1 deceased patient. They found no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the male genital tract or testes, indicating that the virus cannot be sexually transmitted from males.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song et al. (Apr 4, 2020). Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus in semen and testicular biopsy specimen of COVID-19 patients. Pre-print downloaded Apr 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20042333\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20042333<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song et al conducted RT-PCR testing in semen samples from 12 patients who were in the recovery stage of COVID-19, and from a testicular tissue sample from 1 deceased patient. They found no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the male genital tract or testes, indicating that the virus cannot be sexually transmitted from males.\u00a0 Song&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/detection-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-in-semen-and-testicular-biopsy-specimen-of-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}