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Editor, Senior Moderator
Future Microbiol
. 2020 Aug 14.
doi: 10.2217/fmb-2020-0090. Online ahead of print.
Anal swab as the potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate the hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients
Mei Sun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Dong Guo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jing Zhang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jian Zhang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hai-Feng Teng[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jun Xia[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Peng Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Quan-Xu Ge[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Ming-Yi Wang[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Since December 2019, an outbreak of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began in Wuhan, and has rapidly spread worldwide. Previously, discharged patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients met the criteria of China's pneumonia diagnosis and treatment program of novel coronavirus infection (trial version 7) for cure of viral infection. Nevertheless, positive detection of SARS-CoV-2 has been found again in several cured COVID-19 patients, leading to conflicts with current criteria. Here, we report clinically cured cases with positive results only in anal swabs, and investigate the clinical value of anal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection.
Keywords: COVID-19; RT-PCR; SARS-CoV-2; anal swab.
. 2020 Aug 14.
doi: 10.2217/fmb-2020-0090. Online ahead of print.
Anal swab as the potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate the hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients
Mei Sun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Dong Guo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jing Zhang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jian Zhang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hai-Feng Teng[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jun Xia[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Peng Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Quan-Xu Ge[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Ming-Yi Wang[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32795131
- DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2020-0090
Abstract
Since December 2019, an outbreak of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began in Wuhan, and has rapidly spread worldwide. Previously, discharged patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients met the criteria of China's pneumonia diagnosis and treatment program of novel coronavirus infection (trial version 7) for cure of viral infection. Nevertheless, positive detection of SARS-CoV-2 has been found again in several cured COVID-19 patients, leading to conflicts with current criteria. Here, we report clinically cured cases with positive results only in anal swabs, and investigate the clinical value of anal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection.
Keywords: COVID-19; RT-PCR; SARS-CoV-2; anal swab.