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Postmortem Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Mouse Lung Tissue

The infectivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in deceased persons and organisms remains unclear. We studied transgenic K18 hACE2 mice to determine the kinetics of virus infectivity after host death. Five days after death, virus infectivity in the lung declined by >96% and RNA...

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Autores principales: Valkenburg, Sophie A., Cheng, Samuel M.S., Hachim, Asmaa, Peiris, Malik, Nicholls, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34559046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2712.211621