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Wei Liu1, Fang Tang, Arnaud Fontanet
1Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 27, 2004
Abstract:
This study investigated the long-term excretion of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus in sputum and stool specimens from 56 infected patients. The median (range) duration of virus excretion in sputa and stools was 21 (14-52) and 27 (16-126) days, respectively. Coexisting illness or conditions were associated with longer viral excretion in stools.
