Mary Wilson
Well-known member
5 NOVEMBER 2020
CLARE WATSON
A team of researchers and doctors has now reported the case of one woman with leukemia who had no symptoms of COVID-19 but 70 days after her first positive test, she was still shedding infectious SARS-CoV-2 particles.
This result is much longer than previous reports of hospitalised adults found shedding infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus up to 20 days after their COVID-19diagnosis, plus other accounts of people shedding genetic material from the virus up to 63 days after their symptoms first appeared.
The new report should alert doctors and public health experts alike to the fact that people without symptoms and with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients, can seemingly shed the SARS-CoV-2 virus for a really long time. In this case, even months. ...
https://www.sciencealert.com/case-s...ms-but-shed-infectious-sars-cov-2-for-70-days
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Journal Pre-proof
Case Study: Prolonged infectious SARS-CoV-2 shedding from an asymptomatic immunocompromised cancer patient.
Victoria A. Avanzato, M. Jeremiah Matson, Stephanie N. Seifert, Rhys Pryce, Brandi N. Williamson, Sarah L. Anzick, Kent Barbian, Seth D. Judson, Elizabeth R. Fischer, Craig Martens, Thomas A. Bowden, Emmie de Wit, Francis X. Riedo, Vincent J. Munster
Received Date: Revised Date: Accepted Date:
S0092-8674(20)31456-2
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.049
CELL 11714
20 September 2020 13 October 2020 28 October 2020
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092...m/retrieve/pii/S0092867420314562?showall=true
CLARE WATSON
A team of researchers and doctors has now reported the case of one woman with leukemia who had no symptoms of COVID-19 but 70 days after her first positive test, she was still shedding infectious SARS-CoV-2 particles.
This result is much longer than previous reports of hospitalised adults found shedding infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus up to 20 days after their COVID-19diagnosis, plus other accounts of people shedding genetic material from the virus up to 63 days after their symptoms first appeared.
The new report should alert doctors and public health experts alike to the fact that people without symptoms and with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients, can seemingly shed the SARS-CoV-2 virus for a really long time. In this case, even months. ...
https://www.sciencealert.com/case-s...ms-but-shed-infectious-sars-cov-2-for-70-days
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Journal Pre-proof
Case Study: Prolonged infectious SARS-CoV-2 shedding from an asymptomatic immunocompromised cancer patient.
Victoria A. Avanzato, M. Jeremiah Matson, Stephanie N. Seifert, Rhys Pryce, Brandi N. Williamson, Sarah L. Anzick, Kent Barbian, Seth D. Judson, Elizabeth R. Fischer, Craig Martens, Thomas A. Bowden, Emmie de Wit, Francis X. Riedo, Vincent J. Munster
Received Date: Revised Date: Accepted Date:
S0092-8674(20)31456-2
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.049
CELL 11714
20 September 2020 13 October 2020 28 October 2020
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092...m/retrieve/pii/S0092867420314562?showall=true