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cord-354597-xubsodnk	Carvalho, Alexandre	SARS-CoV-2 Gastrointestinal Infection Causing Hemorrhagic Colitis: Implications for Detection and Transmission of COVID-19 Disease	2020-04-17		.txt	text/plain	2779	159	47	Recent reports from China have described concomitant digestive symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, in patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection (5) (6) (7) (8) and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in fecal samples (8, 9) . We present a case of SARS-CoV-2 gastrointestinal infection causing acute hemorrhagic colitis and signaling COVID-19 disease which endoscopy confirmed colonic injury and helped exclude other etiologies of disease. On hospital day 4, 9 days after the onset of her digestive symptoms, the patient developed a cough; nasopharyngeal swabs were sent for comprehensive viral detection, including SARS-CoV-2 RNA (Quest Diagnostics). Given the patient's elevated C-reactive protein and persistent abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea, a flexible sigmoidoscopy was performed on hospital day 4 to evaluate for evidence of inflammatory bowel disease or ischemic colitis.	./cache/cord-354597-xubsodnk.txt	./txt/cord-354597-xubsodnk.txt