PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (38): infectious duration, post vaccine infection, WHO, global

COVID-19 -- South Korea
The duration of transmissibility of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the associated level of contagion have been uncertain. We cultured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in serial respiratory samples obtained from hospitalized patients with COVID-19 to assess the duration of shedding of viable virus.
The data reported here represent all the patients with COVID-19, as confirmed by positive real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)

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