Isolation or De-isolation? Measuring the Infectivity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Editorial

Hung-Chih Yang. Clin Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 2;73(9):e2960-e2961.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1671.

¹ Department of Microbiology, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Keywords: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); de-isolation; severe acute respiratory syndrome conronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); viral culture.

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