Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;27(2):648-650. doi: 10.3201/eid2702.204632. Epub 2020 Dec 8.
We identified severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in an oropharyngeal swab specimen collected from a child with suspected measles in early December 2019, ≈3 months before the first identified coronavirus disease case in Italy. This finding expands our knowledge on timing and mapping of novel coronavirus transmission pathways.
我们在 2019 年 12 月初采集的一名疑似麻疹患儿的咽拭子标本中检测到严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 型 RNA，而意大利首例确诊的冠状病毒病病例出现在 ≈3 个月之前。这一发现扩展了我们对新型冠状病毒传播途径的时间和范围的认识。
