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The longest persistence of viable SARS-CoV-2 with recurrence of viremia and relapsing symptomatic COVID-19 in an immunocompromised patient – a case study
2021-01-26
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<h4>Background</h4> Immunocompromised patients show prolonged shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swabs. We report a case of a prolonged persistence of viable SARS-CoV-2 associated with clinical relapses of COVID-19 in a lymphoma patient. <h4>Methods</h4> Nasopharyngeal swabs and blood samples were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by Real time-PCR (RT-PCR). On five positive nasopharyngeal swabs, we performed viral cultu...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 934d8bd4-2b1b-5dc0-bf72-3955532b3302
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.23.21249554
