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Case study details leukemia patient who shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 for at least 70 days – EurekAlert
The majority of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 appear to actively shed infectious virus for about 8 days, but there is a wide range of variability from person…
IMAGE: This is a scanning electron microscopy image of SARS-CoV-2 obtained from immuno-compromised patient’s nasopharyngeal swab and cultured with VERO-E6 cells.
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The majority of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 appear to actively shed infectious virus for about 8 days, but there is a wide range of variability from person to person. Understanding how long people can remain actively infected is important, because it provides new details about a disease and a virus that…
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