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Shedding of infectious virus in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): duration and key determinants
2020-06-09
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Long-term shedding of viral RNA in COVID-19 prevents timely discharge from the hospital or de-escalation of infection prevention and control practices. Key questions are the duration and determinants of infectious virus shedding. We assessed these questions using virus cultures of respiratory tract samples from hospitalized COVID-19 patients as a proxy for infectious virus she...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d1db5d2e-c398-520f-b12d-d70d29093b27
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.08.20125310
