Viral Shedding and Environmental Cleaning in Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.
- Author:
Joon Young SONG
1
;
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
Author Information
- Publication Type:Brief Communication
- Keywords: Virus shedding; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; Coronavirus
- MeSH: Coronavirus Infections*; Coronavirus*; Humans; Middle East*; Pneumonia; Sodium; Virus Shedding*
- From:Infection and Chemotherapy 2015;47(4):252-255
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- 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.
