Do children need a longer time to shed SARS-CoV-2 in stool than adults?

SARS-CoV-2 can be shed in the stool of patients in the recovery phase. Children show a longer shedding time than adults. We analyzed the possible causes of this finding and recommend that a negative stool sample be included in a patient's discharge criteria.

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Autores principales: Ma, Xiang, Su, Liang, Zhang, Yunkui, Zhang, Xiuzhen, Gai, Zhongtao, Zhang, Zhongfa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32224116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.03.010
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spelling pubmed-71381532020-04-07 Do children need a longer time to shed SARS-CoV-2 in stool than adults? Ma, Xiang Su, Liang Zhang, Yunkui Zhang, Xiuzhen Gai, Zhongtao Zhang, Zhongfa J Microbiol Immunol Infect Article SARS-CoV-2 can be shed in the stool of patients in the recovery phase. Children show a longer shedding time than adults. We analyzed the possible causes of this finding and recommend that a negative stool sample be included in a patient's discharge criteria. Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2020-06 2020-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7138153/ /pubmed/32224116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.03.010 Text en © 2020 Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_fullStr Do children need a longer time to shed SARS-CoV-2 in stool than adults?
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