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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 363-370Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.057
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Coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Fecal-oral transmission; Mode of transmission; Route of transmission; Disease control
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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 countries affected. Primary routes of transmission of the causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-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. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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