What The Study Did: Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction tests were used to assess potential viral shedding among patients who previously had been diagnosed with and had clinically recovered from COVID-19.
Authors: Pa Wu, Ph.D., of the Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9759)
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