Duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral culture positivity among different specimen types

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¹ Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, USA. Electronic address: nkojima@ucla.edu.
² Department of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
³ Curative, San Dimas CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, USA.

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Noah Kojima et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;27(10):1540-1541.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.07.004. Epub 2021 Jul 16.

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, USA. Electronic address: nkojima@ucla.edu.
² Department of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
³ Curative, San Dimas CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, USA.

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Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 cell culture replication in respiratory samples from patients with severe COVID-19.
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