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Scientists isolate live COVID-19 virus from feces, detect RNA on surfaces

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Chinese researchers have isolated live COVID-19 virus from the feces of patients who died from the disease, according to a report published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.In the same journal, a separate group of Chinese researchers reported detection of RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on surfaces in hotel rooms used to quarantine people suspected of having the disease.Aerosolized feces possible disease vectorIn the first study, researchers describe the case of a 78-year-old COVID-19 patient who had recently traveled to Wuhan, China, and was hospitalized in Guangzhou, China, on Jan 17.

The man had a cough, sporadic fevers, and abnormal chest computed tomography (CT) findings.On Jan 22, the patient was placed

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