Publications by authors named "Jie-Nan Liu"
We report a familial cluster of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to assess its potential transmission during the incubation period. The first patient in this familial cluster was identified during the presymptomatic period, as a close contact of a confirmed patient. Five family members had close contact with this first patient during his incubation period, with four of them confirmed positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the subsequent sampling tests.
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- A child tested positive for coronavirus through a stool sample, despite showing no symptoms.
- This positive test occurred 17 days after the child’s last exposure to the virus.
- The virus was found in stool samples for at least 9 more days, but respiratory tests came back negative.