Università della Svizzera italiana

Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding in lower respiratory tract samples of critically ill patients

Buetti, Niccolò ; Trimboli, Pierpaolo ; Mazzuchelli, Timothy ; Lo Priore, Elia ; Balmelli, Carlo ; Trkola, Alexandra ; Conti, Marco ; Martinetti, Gladys ; Elzi, Luigia ; Ceschi, Alessandro ; Consonni, Vera ; Ogna, Adam ; Forni-Ogna, Valentina ; Bernasconi, Enos

In: Endocrine, 2020, p. 7 p

The length of time a critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient remains infectious and should therefore be isolated remains unknown. This prospective study was undertaken in critically ill patients to evaluate the reliability of single negative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in lower tracheal aspirates (LTA) in predicting a second negative test and to analyze...