Screening FMT donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: a protocol for stool SARS-CoV-2 viral quantificationΒΆ

  • DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30124-2 readcube import

  • Patients: 21 (positive: 21, negative: 0)

  • Samples: 81 (positive: unknown, negative: unknown)

  • Assay: 2019-nCoV_N1

  • Level of quantification: 2.5403294748 log10 gc per mL

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Ng et al. consider the RNA load in 81 faecal samples obtained from 21 cases and 114 faecal samples from 114 asymptomatic (presumed non-infected) individuals from high-risk areas. All samples from the control group tested negative. The median number of positive samples per patient was 2.