Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Feces of Patient with Severe COVID-19

Xiao, Fei; Sun, Jing; Xu, Yonghao; Li, Fang; Huang, Xiaofang; Li, Heying; Zhao, Jingxian; Zhao, Jingxian; Huang, Jicheng; Zhao, Jincun; Zhao, Jincun

doi:10.3201/eid2608.200681

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Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Feces of Patient with Severe COVID-19

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • May 18, 2020

Authors:

Fei Xiao

Jing Sun

Yonghao Xu

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was isolated from feces of a patient in China with coronavirus disease who died. Confirmation of infectious virus in feces affirms the potential for fecal-oral or fecal-respiratory transmission and warrants further study.

Subject

Feces

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Coronavirus

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