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DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 482-486Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.392
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COVID-19; re-detectable positive; SARS-CoV-2
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This study aims to explore the clinical characteristics, possible causes, pathogenesis, and infectivity of patients with re-detectable positive nucleic acid tests for SARS-CoV-2, providing up-to-date information for public health policy planners and clinicians.
Objectives: There have been reports on re-detectable positive nucleic acid tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in recovered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients. In this study, we look at the clinical characteristics, possible causes, pathogenesis, and infectivity of re-detectable positive patients and provide up-to-date information to public health policy planners and clinicians. Methods: By consulting the latest research data and related progress data of re-detectable positive patients, this study addresses the implications that this special group brings to clinical work and disease prevention and control. Results: We discuss in detail the phenomenon of re-detectable positive nucleic acid tests for recovered patients. There are many possible causes of a re-detectable positive, but there is no 1 factor that can fully explain this phenomenon. Conclusions: It can't be completely ruled out that the re-detectable positive patients are infectious. We should be alert to these re-detectable positive patients becoming chronic virus carriers, and virus serological IgM and IgG antibody tests should be added before patient discharge. It is urgent to find a more powerful evidence-based and virological basis for the integrity of viral ribonucleic acid and the variation of viral virulence with time through cell experiments in vitro and animal experiments in vivo.
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