Viral shedding and environmental cleaning in middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection

Joon Young Song; Hee Jin Cheong; Min Joo Choi; Ji Ho Jeon; Seong Hee Kang; Eun Ju Jeong; Jin Gu Yoon; Saem Na Lee; Sung Ran Kim; Ji Yun Noh; Woo Joo Kim

doi:10.3947/ic.2015.47.4.252

Viral shedding and environmental cleaning in middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection

Joon Young Song, Hee Jin Cheong, Min Joo Choi, Ji Ho Jeon, Seong Hee Kang, Eun Ju Jeong, Jin Gu Yoon, Saem Na Lee, Sung Ran Kim, Ji Yun Noh, Woo Joo Kim

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Abstract

Viral shedding lasted 31 and 19 days from symptom onset in two patients with east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) pneumonia, respectively. Environmental real-time RT-PCR was weakly positive for bed guardrail and monitors. Even after cleaning the monitors with 70% alcohol-based disinfectant, RT-PCR was still weakly positive, and converted to negative only after wiping with diluted sodium chlorite. Further studies are required to clarify the appropriate methods to clean environments during and after treatment of patients with MERS-CoV infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	252-255
Number of pages	4
Journal	Infection and Chemotherapy
Volume	47
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.4.252
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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© 2015 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases | Korean Society for Chemotherapy.

Keywords

Coronavirus
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Virus shedding

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Infectious Diseases
Pharmacology (medical)

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Viral shedding and environmental cleaning in middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection

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