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. 2020 May;5(5):675-678.
doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0713-1. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness

Wen-Hua Kong #  1 , Yao Li #  1 , Ming-Wei Peng #  1 , De-Guang Kong  1 , Xiao-Bing Yang  1 , Leyi Wang  2 , Man-Qing Liu  3
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SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness

Wen-Hua Kong et al. Nat Microbiol. 2020 May.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019. We re-analysed 640 throat swabs collected from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like-illness from 6 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 and found that 9 of the 640 throat swabs were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by quantitative PCR, suggesting community transmission of SARS-CoV2 in Wuhan in early January 2020.

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