{"id":6763,"date":"2020-05-11T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:35:53","slug":"prolonged-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-body-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/prolonged-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-body-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Body Fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sun et al prospectively assessed 49 coronavirus disease cases in Guangdong, China, to estimate the frequency and duration of detectable\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2 RNA in human body fluids. The estimated time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to clear<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ance of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">viral\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RNA ranged from 45.6 days for nasopharyngeal swab to 46.3 days for feces samples in mild cases; and from 48.9 days for nasopharyngeal swab samples to 49.4 days for feces samples in severe cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. These are\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">longer clearance times<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than has been<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported for patients with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CoV<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0MERS-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CoV<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infections<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sun et al. (May<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a08,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Prolonged Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Body Fluids. Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2608.201097\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2608.201097<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun et al prospectively assessed 49 coronavirus disease cases in Guangdong, China, to estimate the frequency and duration of detectable\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human body fluids. The estimated time\u00a0to clearance of\u00a0viral\u00a0RNA ranged from 45.6 days for nasopharyngeal swab to 46.3 days for feces samples in mild cases; and from 48.9 days for nasopharyngeal swab samples to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/prolonged-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-body-fluids\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","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=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}