Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity of upper respiratory specimens from COVID-19 patients by virus isolation using VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells - Yamada, Souichi; Fukushi, Shuetsu; Kinoshita, Hitomi; Ohnishi, Makoto; Suzuki, Tadaki; Fujimoto, Tsuguto; Saijo, Masayuki; Maeda, Ken; Hanaoka, Nozomu; Nojiri, Naomi; Kawana-Tachikawa, Ai; Kusagawa, Shigeru; et al. (BMJ open respiratory research, 2021)
Keywords: Animals; Cell culture; Cell Line; Chlorocebus aethiops; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - transmission; COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing; Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral; Disease transmission; Humans; Laboratories; Nasal Cavity - virology; Nasopharynx - virology; Public health; Respiratory Infection; Saliva - virology; SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification; SARS-CoV-2 - pathogenicity; Serine Endopeptidases - genetics; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Specimen Handling; Tomography; Vero Cells; viral infection; Viral infections; Viruses; Japan; COVID-19; viral infection