Author:
Perera Ranawaka APM,Tso Eugene,Tsang Owen TY,Tsang Dominic NC,Fung Kitty,Leung Yonna WY,Chin Alex WH,Chu Daniel KW,Cheung Samuel MS,Poon Leo LM,Chuang Vivien WM,Peiris Malik
Abstract
In 68 respiratory specimens from a cohort of 35 COVID-19 patients, 32 of them with mild disease, we found SARS coronavirus-2 virus culture and sub-genomic RNA was rarely detectable beyond 8 days after onset of illness although virus RNA by RT-PCR remained detectable for many weeks.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory