A family cluster of COVID-19 involving an asymptomatic case with persistently positive SARS-CoV-2 in anal swabs

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Suqian People's Hospital of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Group, Suqian, China.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China. Electronic address: dr.wu@nju.edu.cn.

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Rui Huang et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Nov-Dec.

. 2020 Nov-Dec:38:101745.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101745. Epub 2020 May 16.

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Suqian People's Hospital of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Group, Suqian, China.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China. Electronic address: dr.wu@nju.edu.cn.

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