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  • The need for timely establishment of a complete diagnostic protocol of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is demanded worldwide. We selected 15 positive novel coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients with mild or no symptom. Initially, fecal samples were negative in the 67% (10/15) of the cases, while 33% (5/10) of the cases were positive. After serial virus RNA testing, 73% (11/15) of the cases resulted positive to fecal specimens. In particular, 15 days after the first positive respiratory specimens test, 6 fecal specimens became positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, while 13 respiratory test returned negative result. In conclusion, qRT-PCR assays of fecal specimens, is an important step to control infection, suggesting that samples remained positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA longer time then respiratory tract samples. Our results enhance the recent knowledge on this emerging infectious disease and offer suggestions for a more complete diagnostic strategy.
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?:doi
  • 10.1186/s12985-020-01359-1
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?:journal
  • Virol_J
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/ba531f45d9743aabe71a4e8caea42cff00aedc26.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7324771.xml.json
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?:pmid
  • 32605577.0
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?:source
  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in fecal samples
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?:year
  • 2020-06-30

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