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SMC MEDIA SRL, European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, Vol 7 No 6, 2020
DOI: 10.12890/2020_001707
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Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 with Persistent Evidence of Infection
Journal article published in 2020 by
Damiano D'Ardes,
Andrea Boccatonda,
Ilaria Rossi,
Michela Pontolillo,
Giulio Cocco 
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Cosima Schiavone,
Francesca Santilli,
Maria Teresa Guagnano,
Marco Bucci,
Francesco Cipollone
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Cosima Schiavone,
Francesca Santilli,
Maria Teresa Guagnano,
Marco Bucci,
Francesco Cipollone
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Abstract
In December 2019, an outbreak of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was reported in Hubei province in China. The disease has since spread worldwide and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. We describe the case of a 65-year-old woman who clinically recovered from COVID-19 but showed persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 for 51 days.