A new study has shown that COVID-19 virus isolated from the stool of a sick patient can infect cells in a petri dish. The research is a step toward proving a new route of transmission for the infection. What you need to know:
have shown that about half of COVID-19 patients have the virus in their stool. Traces of the virus seem to remain in stool long after the virus can no longer be detected in nose and throat swabs.the rooms of people who were hospitalized for COVID-19 and those who tested positive and had no or only minor symptoms and were in quarantine at a different location.recommends giving a sick family member their own bathroom to use, if at all possible.
For that, scientists have to go a step further. They mix a solution of the virus with cells to see if the virus infects the cells and kills them.with virus they isolated from the stool of a COVID-19 patient found that it could infect living cells. When they looked at infected cells under an electron microscope, they could see the cells releasing viral particles that were presumably ready to go infect more cells, highlighting the potential for the disease to spread this way.
“The question really becomes how big is this, right? And how much does it matter in the grand scheme of things,” says Barun Mathema, PhD, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University in New York City.
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