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cord-313460-oao2zppd	D’Ardes, Damiano	Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 with Persistent Evidence of Infection	2020-05-11		.txt	text/plain	878	57	60	title: Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 with Persistent Evidence of Infection We describe the case of a 65-year-old woman who clinically recovered from COVID-19 but showed persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 for 51 days. Although the patient had clinically recovered and had been transferred from our acute department to a unit for clinically stable patients, the nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 continued to be positive until the end of April (swabs taken in mid-April, 22 April and 30 April), an interval of around 51 days from the onset of symptoms on 10 March. In contrast to the 15-20 days usually described as the average duration of mild COVID-19 disease, in this case we demonstrated SARS-CoV-2 positivity which lasted for over 50 days even though the patient was clinically well 2 weeks after the onset of symptoms. Positive RT-PCR test results in patients recovered from COVID-19	./cache/cord-313460-oao2zppd.txt	./txt/cord-313460-oao2zppd.txt