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cord-270377-lfcoy8n1	Novazzi, Federica	SARS-CoV-2 positivity in rectal swabs implication for possible transmission	2020-07-02		.txt	text/plain	422	37	62	Currently, the diagnosis is based on molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in respiratory samples such as nasal swab (NS) [1] . However, the evidence that NS in patients with pneumoniae were sometimes negative highlight the needed to collect alternative clinical specimens in whom SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be detected. From the past coronavirus epidemics (SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV) we learned that viral RNA could be also detected in several clinical specimens such as rectal swab (RS) other than respiratory samples [2] . In this perspective, we explored the potential diagnostic role of SARS-CoV-2 real-time RT-PCR performed in biological specimens different from respiratory samples. However, the very low rate of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in samples different from respiratory specimens suggest a limited J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens	./cache/cord-270377-lfcoy8n1.txt	./txt/cord-270377-lfcoy8n1.txt