title: Viral Shedding and Environmental Cleaning in Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.
abstract: Viral shedding lasted 31 and 19 days from symptom onset in two patients with east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) pneumonia, respectively. Environmental real-time RT-PCR was weakly positive for bed guardrail and monitors. Even after cleaning the monitors with 70% alcohol-based disinfectant, RT-PCR was still weakly positive, and converted to negative only after wiping with diluted sodium chlorite. Further studies are required to clarify the appropriate methods to clean environments during and after treatment of patients with MERS-CoV infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Asian Pacific Influenza Institute (APII), Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Infection Control Unit, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Joon Young
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0148-7194
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Asian Pacific Influenza Institute (APII), Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Hee Jin
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2532-1463
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Cheong
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Min Joo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Ho
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Seong Hee
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Ju
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Jin Gu
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Saem Na
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Infection Control Unit, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung Ran
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Asian Pacific Influenza Institute (APII), Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Yun
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8541-5704
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Noh
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.; Asian Pacific Influenza Institute (APII), Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Woo Joo
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4546-3880
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: Coronavirus; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; Virus shedding