Table 5. Virus isolation from specimens positive for SARS-CoV by RT-PCRa.
| Wk | Sample type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive NPA/sputum/total (%) | Positive TS/total (%) | Positive stool/total (%) | Positive urine/total (%) | Total pos/total tested (%) | |
| 1 | 3/11 (27.3) | 0/3 (0) | 0/0 (0) | 0/0 (0) | 3/14 (21.4) |
| 2 | 20/37 (54.1) | 1/6 (16.7) | 0/11 (0) | 1/4 (25.0) | 22/58 (37.9) |
| 3 | 0/6 (0) | 1/6 (16.7) | 1/18 (5.6) | 0/0 (0) | 2/30 (6.7) |
| 4 | 0/3 (0) | 0/0 (0) | 0/7 (0) | 0/0 (0) | 0/10 (0) |
| Total | 23/57 (40.4) | 2/15 (13.3) | 1/26 (3.8) | 1/4 (25.0) | 27/112 (24.1) |
aSARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus; RT-PCR, reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction; NPA, nasopharyngeal aspirate; TS, throat swab.