Potential Fecal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Current Evidence and Implications for Public Health.

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Potential Fecal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Current Evidence and Implications for Public Health.

Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr 23;:

Authors: Amirian ES

Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Hubei Province, China in December 2019 and has since become a global pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of cases and over 165 affected countries. Primary routes of transmission of the causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), are through respiratory droplets and close person-to-person contact. While information about other potential modes of transmission are relatively sparse, evidence supporting the possibility of a fecally-mediated mode of transmission has been accumulating. Here, current knowledge on the potential for fecal transmission is briefly reviewed and the possible implications are discussed from a public health perspective.

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