TY - JOUR AU - Sun, Jiufeng AU - Xiao, Jianpeng AU - Sun, Ruilin AU - Tang, Xi AU - Liang, Chumin AU - Lin, Huifang AU - Zeng, Lilian AU - Hu, Jianxiong AU - Yuan, Runyu AU - Zhou, Pingping AU - Peng, Jinju AU - Xiong, Qianlin AU - Cui, Fengfu AU - Liu, Zhe AU - Lu, Jing AU - Tian, Junzhang AU - Ma, Wenjun AU - Ke, Changwen T1 - Prolonged Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Body Fluids T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 8 SP - 1834 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We prospectively assessed 49 coronavirus disease cases in Guangdong, China, to estimate the frequency and duration of detectable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in human body fluids. The prolonged persistence of virus RNA in various body fluids may guide the clinical diagnosis and prevention of onward virus transmission. KW - SARS-CoV-2 RNA KW - COVID-19 KW - persistence KW - coronavirus KW - Guangdong KW - China KW - respiratory infections KW - viruses KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - zoonoses KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - RNA KW - coronavirus disease DO - 10.3201/eid2608.201097 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1097_article ER - End of Reference