{"id":8740,"date":"2020-08-05T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:18:52","slug":"sars-cov-2-virus-culture-and-subgenomic-rna-for-respiratory-specimens-from-patients-with-mild-coronavirus-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/sars-cov-2-virus-culture-and-subgenomic-rna-for-respiratory-specimens-from-patients-with-mild-coronavirus-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Virus Culture and\u00a0Subgenomic\u00a0RNA for Respiratory Specimens from Patients with Mild Coronavirus Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"4\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0viral culture data<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients with predominantly mild COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=35)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">suggests that patients with mild to moderate illness might be less contagious 8 days after symptom onset.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Perera<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that 16<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\/68<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0specimens\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive by viral culture<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">all of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the positive specimens came from the first 8 days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0following symptom onset,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">though participants continued to have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0detectable viral RNA by PCR for up to 67 days. They\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conclude that mildly ill patients who have clinically recovered and are not immunocompromised might be discharged from containment &gt;9 days after symptom onset,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as long as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0they are not being discharged into settings that contain other highly vulnerable people.\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\">Perera<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">(<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Aug 4,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020).<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 Virus Culture and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Subgenomic<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0RNA for Respiratory Specimens from Patients with Mild Coronavirus Disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2611.203219\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2611.203219<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2\u00a0viral culture data\u00a0from\u00a0patients with predominantly mild COVID-19\u00a0(n=35)\u00a0suggests that patients with mild to moderate illness might be less contagious 8 days after symptom onset.\u00a0Perera\u00a0et al.\u00a0found that 16\/68\u00a0specimens\u00a0were\u00a0positive by viral culture,\u00a0and\u00a0that\u00a0all of\u00a0the positive specimens came from the first 8 days\u00a0following symptom onset,\u00a0although participants continued to have\u00a0detectable viral RNA by PCR for up to 67 days. They\u00a0conclude that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/sars-cov-2-virus-culture-and-subgenomic-rna-for-respiratory-specimens-from-patients-with-mild-coronavirus-disease\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","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=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8741,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}