COVID-19 patients are most infectious in first week of contracting virus, new study reveals
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COVID-19 patients are most infectious in first week of contracting virus, new study reveals

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Although the genetic material of the novel coronavirus may still be detected in the respiratory or stool samples of COVID-19 patients for several weeks, no infectious virus particle was found beyond nine days of symptom onset, a new study says. They assessed key factors involved in the period of infectiousness of COVID-19 patients such as viral load, the length of time someone sheds viral genetic material of the pathogen, and isolation of the live virus. From these studies, the scientists calculated the average length of viral RNA shedding and examined the changes in viral load and the success of isolating the live virus from different samples collected throughout an infection. Therefore, our findings may not apply to people with milder infection although these results suggest those with milder cases may clear the virus faster from their body," said study senior author Antonia Ho of MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in the UK.

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