Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of upper respiratory specimens from COVID-19 patients by virus isolation using VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells

Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of upper respiratory specimens from COVID-19 patients by virus isolation using VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells

Background An outbreak of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)-associated respiratory infectious diseases (COVID-19) emerged in 2019 and has spread rapidly in humans around the world. The demonstration of in vitro infectiousness of respiratory specimens is an informative surrogate for SARS-CoV-2 transmiss...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Ishii, Tadaki Suzuki, Souichi Yamada, Shuetsu Fukushi, Hitomi Kinoshita, Makoto Ohnishi, Tsuguto Fujimoto, Masayuki Saijo, Ken Maeda, Nozomu Hanaoka, Naomi Nojiri, Ai Kawana-Tachikawa, Shigeru Kusagawa, Koichi Ishikawa, Shigeyoshi Harada, Saori Matsuoka, Tadashi Kikuchi, Sayuri Seki, Midori Nakamura-Hoshi, Shoji Miki, Lucky Ronald Runtuwene, Nobuo Koizumi, Sunao Iyoda, Hideyuki Takahashi, Hidemasa Izumiya, Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Masatomo Morita, Ken-ichi Lee, Ken Shimuta, Kyoko Saito, Masayoshi Fukasawa, Yasutaka Hoshino, Ken Miyazawa, Minoru Nagi, Chikako Shimokawa, Yasuyuki Morishima, Takashi Sakudoh, Yoshihiro Kaku, Chang Kweng Lim, Shigeru Tajima, Takahiro Maeki, Eri Nakayama, Satoshi Taniguchi, Motohiko Ogawa, Takanobu Kato, Hussein Hassan Aly, Kousho Wakae, Kento Fukano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Online Access:https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/8/1/e000830.full
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