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. 2020 Aug 5;64(3):486–488. doi: 10.1007/s11427-020-1783-9

Comparative study on virus shedding patterns in nasopharyngeal and fecal specimens of COVID-19 patients

Ning Zhang 1,#, Yuhuan Gong 2,#, Fanping Meng 3, Yi Shi 1, Jun Wang 1, Panyong Mao 3, Xia Chuai 4, Yuhai Bi 1,5,6,✉, Penghui Yang 3,✉, Fusheng Wang 3,✉
PMCID: PMC7417111  PMID: 32778998

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Table 1: Demographics and clinical symptoms of the COVID-19 patients in this study

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (XDB29010102 and XDA19090118), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (32041010), and Hebei Key Research and Development Program (20277704D). Y.B. is supported by the NSFC Outstanding Young Scholars (31822055) and Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (2017122).

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The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Footnotes

Contributed equally to this work

Contributor Information

Yuhai Bi, Email: beeyh@im.ac.cn.

Penghui Yang, Email: ypenghuiamms@hotmail.com.

Fusheng Wang, Email: fswang302@163.com.

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