{"id":7600,"date":"2020-06-17T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:32:50","slug":"environmental-surface-testing-for-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-during-prolonged-isolation-of-an-asymptomatic-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/17\/environmental-surface-testing-for-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-during-prolonged-isolation-of-an-asymptomatic-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Surface Testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during Prolonged Isolation of an Asymptomatic Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Testing of high-touch\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surfaces\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e.g.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mobile phone, door handle)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in an isolation room of an asymptomatic pediatric patient positive for SARS-CoV-2 found no evidence of environmental contamination. The patient<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had been diagnosed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a041 days prior to sampling, but remained PCR positive without decrease in viral titer. The most recent cleaning of the environment was 4 days prior.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0These results give some indication that e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nvironmental contamination by asymptomatic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">carriers may be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">limited;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">however<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0these results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are based on a single case and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may have been affected by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">long interval between diagnosis of the case and sampling of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">environment.\u00a0<\/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\">Shin et al. (June 2020). Environmental Surface Testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during Prolonged Isolation of an Asymptomatic Carrier. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.300\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.300<\/span><\/a><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>Testing of high-touch\u00a0surfaces\u00a0(e.g.\u00a0mobile phone, door handle)\u00a0in an isolation room of an asymptomatic pediatric patient positive for SARS-CoV-2 found no evidence of environmental contamination. The patient\u00a0had been diagnosed\u00a041 days prior to sampling, but remained PCR positive without decrease in viral titer. The most recent cleaning of the environment was 4 days prior.\u00a0These results give some indication&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/17\/environmental-surface-testing-for-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-during-prolonged-isolation-of-an-asymptomatic-carrier\/\">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-7600","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\/7600","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=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7601,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}