{"id":6188,"date":"2020-04-21T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:28:03","slug":"positive-result-of-sars-cov-2-in-faeces-and-sputum-from-discharged-patient-with-covid-19-in-yiwu-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/positive-result-of-sars-cov-2-in-faeces-and-sputum-from-discharged-patient-with-covid-19-in-yiwu-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive result of Sars-Cov-2 in faeces and sputum from discharged patient with COVID-19 in Yiwu, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow-up testing of 13 discharged COVID-19 patients revealed 2 patients continuously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 even though sputum was negative, and 4 patients had positive sputum samples 5-14 days after discharge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under present discharge criteria, the high presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA indicates potential infectivity. The authors recommend adding a negative result from fecal testing to discharge criteria, and strengthening of follow-up procedures with discharged patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li et al. (April 20, 2020). Positive result of Sars-Cov-2 in faeces and sputum from discharged patient with COVID-19 in Yiwu, China. J Med Virol. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.25905\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.25905<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow-up testing of 13 discharged COVID-19 patients revealed 2 patients continuously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 even though sputum was negative, and 4 patients had positive sputum samples 5-14 days after discharge.\u00a0\u00a0 Under present discharge criteria, the high presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA indicates potential infectivity. The authors recommend adding a negative result from fecal testing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/positive-result-of-sars-cov-2-in-faeces-and-sputum-from-discharged-patient-with-covid-19-in-yiwu-china\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","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=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}