SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness

Wen-hua Kong; Yao Li; Ming-wei Peng; De-guang Kong; Xiao-bing Yang; Leyi Wang; Man-qing Liu

doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0713-1

SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness

Wen-hua Kong, Yao Li, Ming-wei Peng, De-guang Kong, Xiao-bing Yang, Leyi Wang, Man-qing Liu

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019. We re-analysed 640 throat swabs collected from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like-illness from 6 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 and found that 9 of the 640 throat swabs were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by quantitative PCR, suggesting community transmission of SARS-CoV2 in Wuhan in early January 2020.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	675-678
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Microbiology
Volume	5
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0713-1
State	Published - May 1 2020

Keywords

Coronavirus
COVID-19
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Novel coronavirus
2019-nCoV
Pandemic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Microbiology
Immunology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Genetics
Microbiology (medical)
Cell Biology

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