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. 2020 Nov;92(11):2328-2331.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26007. Epub 2020 Aug 2.

Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in anal/rectal swabs and stool specimens in COVID-19 patients after negative conversion in nasopharyngeal RT-PCR test

Vincent Kipkorir  1 , Isaac Cheruiyot  1 , Brian Ngure  1 , Musa Misiani  1 , Jeremiah Munguti  1
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Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in anal/rectal swabs and stool specimens in COVID-19 patients after negative conversion in nasopharyngeal RT-PCR test

Vincent Kipkorir et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; prolonged SARS-CoV-2 detection.

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Forest plot for pooled prevalence estimate of prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA detection after negative conversion in the nasopharyngeal reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction. CI, confidence interval
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