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Emergence of multiple SARS-CoV-2 mutations in an immunocompromised host
2021-01-15
Abstract excerpt
Prolonged shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2 has recently been reported in a number of immunosuppressed individuals with COVID-19. Here, we describe the detection of high levels of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 in specimens taken from the respiratory tract of a B-cell depleted patient up to 154 days after initial COVID-19 diagnosis concomitant with the development of high mutation rate. In this patient, a total...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4db40edc-ca00-5b80-b9fb-ee723fee9122
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.10.20248871
