Retest positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA of “recovered” patients with COVID‐19: Persistence, sampling issues, or re‐infection?

H Kang, Y Wang, Z Tong, X Liu - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Retest Positive” for severe acute respiratory syndrome‐related coronavirus‐2
(SARS‐CoV‐2) from “recovered” coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19) has been reported …

Recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in recovered COVID-19 patients during medical isolation observation

B Yuan, HQ Liu, ZR Yang, YX Chen, ZY Liu, K Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, the recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in recovered COVID-19 patients
is receiving more attention. Herein we report a cohort study on the follow-up of 182 …

Recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in recovered COVID-19 patients: a narrative review

TL Dao, VT Hoang, P Gautret - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
Many studies have shown that re-positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR in recovered
COVID-19 patients are very common. We aim to conduct this review to summarize the …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrence of positive SARS‐CoV‐2 in patients recovered from COVID‐19

VT Hoang, TL Dao, P Gautret - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dear Editor, In December 2019, an outbreak of respiratory infectious disease (COVID‐19)
due to a novel coronavirus (at the time officially named SARS‐CoV‐2) emerged in the city of …

Clinical, immunological and virological characterization of COVID-19 patients that test re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR

J Lu, J Peng, Q Xiong, Z Liu, H Lin, X Tan, M Kang… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Some COVID-19 cases test positive again for SARS-CoV-2 RNA following
negative test results and discharge, raising questions about the meaning of virus detection …

Viral RNA level, serum antibody responses, and transmission risk in recovered COVID-19 patients with recurrent positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA test results: a population …

C Yang, M Jiang, X Wang, X Tang, S Fang… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Managing recovered COVID-19 patients with recurrent-positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA test
results is challenging. We performed a population-based observational study to characterize …

Clearance and persistence of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in patients with COVID‐19

A Carmo, J Pereira‐Vaz, V Mota… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with coronavirus disease‐2019 may be discharged based on clinical resolution of
symptoms, and evidence for viral RNA clearance from the upper respiratory tract …

Re-detectable positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA tests in patients who recovered from COVID-19 with intestinal infection

W Tao, X Wang, G Zhang, M Guo, H Ma, D Zhao… - Protein & …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus that
causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)(Yang and Wang, 2020), has spread to more …

Is novel coronavirus 2019 reinfection possible? Interpreting dynamic SARS-CoV-2 test results

NM Duggan, SM Ludy, BC Shannon, AT Reisner… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Since December 2019, COVID-19, the clinical syndrome associated with SARS-
CoV-2 infection, has infected more than 6.2 million people and brought the function of the …

Evidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reinfection after recovery from mild coronavirus disease 2019

JS Lee, SY Kim, TS Kim, KH Hong… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Positive results from real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction
(rRT-PCR) in recovered patients raise concern that patients who recover from coronavirus …