Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19

The relation of continuing to test positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to infectivity remains unclear, with numerous consequences. This report describes 2 patients with persistent viral detect...

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Autores principales: Kandetu, Theo-Ben, Dziuban, Eric J., Sikuvi, Kaveto, Beard, Rachel S., Nghihepa, Reginald, van Rooyen, Gerhard, Shiningavamwe, Andreas, Katjitae, Ismael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7884651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.450
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author Kandetu, Theo-Ben
Dziuban, Eric J.
Sikuvi, Kaveto
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Nghihepa, Reginald
van Rooyen, Gerhard
Shiningavamwe, Andreas
Katjitae, Ismael
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Dziuban, Eric J.
Sikuvi, Kaveto
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description The relation of continuing to test positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to infectivity remains unclear, with numerous consequences. This report describes 2 patients with persistent viral detection by RT-PCR for 77 and 72 days, respectively, longer than other reported case-patients who were otherwise healthy.
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spelling pubmed-78846512021-02-16 Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19 Kandetu, Theo-Ben Dziuban, Eric J. Sikuvi, Kaveto Beard, Rachel S. Nghihepa, Reginald van Rooyen, Gerhard Shiningavamwe, Andreas Katjitae, Ismael Disaster Med Public Health Prep Brief Report The relation of continuing to test positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to infectivity remains unclear, with numerous consequences. This report describes 2 patients with persistent viral detection by RT-PCR for 77 and 72 days, respectively, longer than other reported case-patients who were otherwise healthy. Cambridge University Press 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7884651/ /pubmed/33208199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.450 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kandetu, Theo-Ben
Dziuban, Eric J.
Sikuvi, Kaveto
Beard, Rachel S.
Nghihepa, Reginald
van Rooyen, Gerhard
Shiningavamwe, Andreas
Katjitae, Ismael
Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title_full Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title_fullStr Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title_short Persistence of Positive RT-PCR Results for Over 70 Days in Two Travelers with COVID-19
title_sort persistence of positive rt-pcr results for over 70 days in two travelers with covid-19
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7884651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.450
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