Serial simultaneously self-swabbed samples from multiple sites show similarly decreasing SARS-CoV-2 loads in COVID-19 cases of differing clinical severity

J Infect. 2020 Dec;81(6):979-997. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.09.016. Epub 2020 Sep 19.
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Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / diagnosis
  • COVID-19 / virology*
  • COVID-19 Testing / methods*
  • Cheek / virology
  • Conjunctiva / virology
  • Humans
  • Nasopharynx / virology
  • Nose / virology
  • Oropharynx / virology
  • Prospective Studies
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Specimen Handling / methods*
  • Viral Load*