Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient

During the 2015 Korea Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak, a lymphoma patient developed MERS pneumonia. His pneumonia improved by 45 days after illness onset, but the polymerase chain reaction tests remained (+) for 6 months. However, replication-competent virus was dete...

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Autores principales: Choe, Pyoeng Gyun, Park, Wan Beom, Choi, Su-Jin, Kang, Chang Kyung, Koh, Yongil, Kim, Nam Joong, Oh, Myoung-don
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa292
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author Choe, Pyoeng Gyun
Park, Wan Beom
Choi, Su-Jin
Kang, Chang Kyung
Koh, Yongil
Kim, Nam Joong
Oh, Myoung-don
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description During the 2015 Korea Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak, a lymphoma patient developed MERS pneumonia. His pneumonia improved by 45 days after illness onset, but the polymerase chain reaction tests remained (+) for 6 months. However, replication-competent virus was detected by 60 days after illness onset.
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spelling pubmed-74082262020-08-10 Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient Choe, Pyoeng Gyun Park, Wan Beom Choi, Su-Jin Kang, Chang Kyung Koh, Yongil Kim, Nam Joong Oh, Myoung-don Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports During the 2015 Korea Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak, a lymphoma patient developed MERS pneumonia. His pneumonia improved by 45 days after illness onset, but the polymerase chain reaction tests remained (+) for 6 months. However, replication-competent virus was detected by 60 days after illness onset. Oxford University Press 2020-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7408226/ /pubmed/32782912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa292 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Brief Reports
Choe, Pyoeng Gyun
Park, Wan Beom
Choi, Su-Jin
Kang, Chang Kyung
Koh, Yongil
Kim, Nam Joong
Oh, Myoung-don
Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title_full Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title_fullStr Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title_full_unstemmed Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title_short Prolonged (6-Month) Shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus RNA in the Sputum of a Lymphoma Patient
title_sort prolonged (6-month) shedding of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus rna in the sputum of a lymphoma patient
topic Brief Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa292
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