{"id":949,"date":"2020-09-17T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=949"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:13:16","slug":"prolonged-sars-cov-2-detection-and-reversed-rt-pcr-results-in-mild-or-asymptomatic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/prolonged-sars-cov-2-detection-and-reversed-rt-pcr-results-in-mild-or-asymptomatic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Reversed RT-PCR Results in Mild or Asymptomatic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Many people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 (n=300) had prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity with intermittent negative tests in a study in Korea. 23% had SARS-CoV-2 detected more than 3 weeks after the initial positive RT-PCR test, and 14% had positive results for more than 4 weeks. Overall, 37% (152\/405) of negative results were positive or indeterminate in the next day&#8217;s test, and 43% (123\/283) of negative results were followed by a positive or indeterminate result within 3 weeks of diagnosis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kim et al. (Sept 16, 2020). Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Reversed RT-PCR Results in Mild or Asymptomatic Patients. Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23744235.2020.1820076\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23744235.2020.1820076<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 (n=300) had prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity with intermittent negative tests in a study in Korea. 23% had SARS-CoV-2 detected more than 3 weeks after the initial positive RT-PCR test, and 14% had positive results for more than 4 weeks. Overall, 37% (152\/405) of negative results were positive or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/prolonged-sars-cov-2-detection-and-reversed-rt-pcr-results-in-mild-or-asymptomatic-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}