Wenting Zuo, Di He, Chaoyang Liang, Shiyu Du, Zhan Hua, Qiangqiang Nie, Xiaofeng Zhou, Meng Yang, Haidong Tan, Jiuyang Xu, Yanbing Yu, Yuliang Zhan, Ying Zhang, Xiaoying Gu, Weijie Zhu, Hui Zhang, Hongyan Li, Weiliang Sun, Mingzhi Sun, Xiaolei Liu, Liguo Liu, Chuanzhen Cao, Rui Li, Jing Li, Yun Zhang, Yuting Zhang, Jing Guo, Ling Zhao, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Hongyu Liu, Shiyao Wang, Fei Xiao, Yeming Wang, Zai Wang, Haibo Li, Bin Cao
BACKGROUND: Growing evidence suggests that symptoms associated with post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) can affect multiple organs and systems in the human body, but their association with viral persistence is not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in diverse tissues at three timepoints following recovery from mild COVID-19, as well as its association with long COVID symptoms. METHODS: This single-centre, cross-sectional cohort study was done at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, China, following the omicron wave of COVID-19 in December, 2022...
April 22, 2024: Lancet Infectious Diseases