Three COVID-19 cases with a long-term viral shedding period in Tunisia.
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
outbreak
pandemic
shedding
Journal
The Pan African medical journal
ISSN: 1937-8688
Titre abrégé: Pan Afr Med J
Pays: Uganda
ID NLM: 101517926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
13
07
2020
accepted:
14
07
2020
entrez:
7
12
2020
pubmed:
8
12
2020
medline:
17
12
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a public health emergency of international concern. This was first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and then has become widespread all over the world. We report 3 cases (2 imported cases and 1 local case) with documented viral shedding (based on reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing) of SARS-CoV-2 for 55, 59 and 63 days. Viral shedding duration was defined as the date of return from the COVID-19 pandemic countries for imported cases and from the first positive RT-PCR test for local cases, up to the second negative nasopharyngeal RT-PCR swab. These cases demonstrate that viral shedding after COVID-19 diagnosis can be prolonged.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33282072
doi: 10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.24950
pii: PAMJ-SUPP-35-2-117
pmc: PMC7687511
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Viral
0
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
117Informations de copyright
©Cyrine Bennasrallah et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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