{"id":8957,"date":"2021-04-12T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:39:21","slug":"prevalence-and-persistent-shedding-of-fecal-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-with-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/prevalence-and-persistent-shedding-of-fecal-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-with-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence and Persistent Shedding of Fecal SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A systematic review and meta-analysis (n = 35 studies) found that the pooled prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in fecal samples from COVID-19 patients was 43%, and that a higher proportion of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms (OR = 2.4) compared with no GI symptoms, specifically diarrhea (OR = 3.0), had detectable fecal RNA. SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in feces lasted longer than in respiratory samples (mean difference = 7.1 days).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhang et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Prevalence and Persistent Shedding of Fecal SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14309\/ctg.0000000000000343\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14309\/ctg.0000000000000343<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis (n = 35 studies) found that the pooled prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in fecal samples from COVID-19 patients was 43%, and that a higher proportion of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms (OR = 2.4) compared with no GI symptoms, specifically diarrhea (OR = 3.0), had detectable fecal RNA. SARS-CoV-2 RNA&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/prevalence-and-persistent-shedding-of-fecal-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-with-covid-19-infection-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","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=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}