key: cord-0873941-5i31ysee
authors: Liu, Juan; Xiao, Yong; Shen, Yuan; Shi, Chao; Chen, Yujun; Shi, Ping; Gao, Yumeng; Wang, Yiqing; Lu, Bin
title: Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 by RT‐PCR in anal from patients who have recovered from coronavirus disease 2019
date: 2020-04-14
journal: J Med Virol
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.25875
sha: ceecd24431d9d3df9f2afefa34785409163929ed
doc_id: 873941
cord_uid: 5i31ysee

An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), started in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The real‐time reverse‐ transcriptase polymerase ‐ chain ‐ reaction (RT ‐ PCR) method can be used for the detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in oral swabs(1). Now, results have confirmed the presence of the live virus in stool samples from patients with COVID‐ 19(2). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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