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Multicenter Study
. 2020 Oct;41(10):1235-1236.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.307. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Prolonged shedding of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Jessica P Ridgway  1 , Nirav S Shah  2 , Ari A Robicsek  3
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Multicenter Study

Prolonged shedding of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Jessica P Ridgway et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Oct.
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