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Case Reports
. 2020 Apr:93:297-299.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.003. Epub 2020 Mar 5.

Recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA in COVID-19: A case report

Dabiao Chen  1 , Wenxiong Xu  1 , Ziying Lei  1 , Zhanlian Huang  1 , Jing Liu  1 , Zhiliang Gao  1 , Liang Peng  2
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Case Reports

Recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA in COVID-19: A case report

Dabiao Chen et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 that began in Wuhan, China, has constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, with cases confirmed in multiple countries. Currently, patients are the primary source of infection. We report a confirmed case of COVID-19 whose oropharyngeal swab test of SARS-CoV-2 RNA turned positive in convalescence. This case highlights the importance of active surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for infectivity assessment.

Keywords: COVID-19; Infectivity; NCP; Novel coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Figure 1
Chest HRCT images on 23 January 2020, showing multiple patchy ground glass opacities in bilateral subpleural areas (red arrows). HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.
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