{"id":5916,"date":"2020-04-14T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:01:40","slug":"prolonged-presence-of-sars-cov-2-viral-rna-in-faecal-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/prolonged-presence-of-sars-cov-2-viral-rna-in-faecal-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wu et al present SARS-CoV-2 RT PCR results from respiratory and fecal samples taken from 98 COVID-19 patients at a Chinese hospital, throughout the course of their illness and quarantine period. Their data suggest the possibility of extended duration of viral shedding in feces for nearly 5 weeks after respiratory samples tested negative, which may have implications for patient discharge and quarantine.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wu et al. (March 19, 2020). Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples. Lancet. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-1253(20)30083-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-1253(20)30083-2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu et al present SARS-CoV-2 RT PCR results from respiratory and fecal samples taken from 98 COVID-19 patients at a Chinese hospital, throughout the course of their illness and quarantine period. Their data suggest the possibility of extended duration of viral shedding in feces for nearly 5 weeks after respiratory samples tested negative, which may&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/prolonged-presence-of-sars-cov-2-viral-rna-in-faecal-samples\/\">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-5916","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\/5916","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=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}