SARS-CoV-2 virus culture from the upper respiratory tract: Correlation with viral load, subgenomic viral RNA and duration of illness.

  1. Ranawaka APM Perera
  2. Eugene Tso
  3. Owen TY Tsang
  4. Dominic NC Tsang
  5. Kitty Fung
  6. Yonna WY Leung
  7. Alex WH Chin
  8. Daniel KW Chu
  9. Samuel MS Cheung
  10. Leo LM Poon
  11. Vivien WM Chuang
  12. Malik Peiris
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Abstract

In 68 respiratory specimens from a cohort of 35 COVID-19 patients, 32 of them with mild disease, we found SARS coronavirus-2 virus culture and sub-genomic RNA was rarely detectable beyond 8 days after onset of illness although virus RNA by RT-PCR remained detectable for many weeks.

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