SARS-CoV-2-Positive Sputum and Feces After Conversion of Pharyngeal Samples in Patients With COVID-19

Chen Chen; Guiju Gao; Yanli Xu; Lin Pu; Qi Wang; Liming Wang; Wenling Wang; Yangzi Song; Meiling Chen; Linghang Wang; Fengting Yu; Siyuan Yang; Yunxia Tang; Li Zhao; Huijuan Wang; Yajie Wang; Hui Zeng; Fujie Zhang

doi:10.7326/M20-0991

SARS-CoV-2-Positive Sputum and Feces After Conversion of Pharyngeal Samples in Patients With COVID-19

Ann Intern Med. 2020 Jun 16;172(12):832-834. doi: 10.7326/M20-0991. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

Authors

Chen Chen¹, Guiju Gao¹, Yanli Xu¹, Lin Pu¹, Qi Wang¹, Liming Wang¹, Wenling Wang², Yangzi Song¹, Meiling Chen¹, Linghang Wang¹, Fengting Yu¹, Siyuan Yang¹, Yunxia Tang¹, Li Zhao², Huijuan Wang², Yajie Wang¹, Hui Zeng¹, Fujie Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China (C.C., G.G., Y.X., L.P., Q.W., L.W., Y.S., M.C., L.W., F.Y., S.Y., Y.T., Y.W., H.Z., F.Z.).
² NHC Key Laboratory, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (W.W., L.Z., H.W.).

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Keywords: Blood; COVID-19; Nucleic acids; Pediatric infections; Polymerase chain reaction; Prevention, policy, and public health; Pulmonary diseases; Sputum; Upper respiratory tract infections; Vaccines.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Betacoronavirus / genetics
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Child
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / virology*
Feces / virology*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pharynx / virology*
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology*
RNA, Viral / isolation & purification
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Sputum / virology*
Viral Load
Young Adult

Substances

RNA, Viral