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cord-314025-h9gj814e	Lai, Mary Y. Y.	Survival of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus	2005-10-01		.txt	text/plain	3089	159	58	SARS-CoV GVU6109 can survive for 4 days in diarrheal stool samples with an alkaline pH, and it can remain infectious in respiratory specimens for >7 days at room temperature. Soon after the isolation of SARS-CoV in our laboratory, we were able to perform a survival study of the virus, and partial results were reported on the World Health Organization Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Web site on SARS [6] . Here, we provide a full report of our study of the survival characteristics of SARS-CoV in different clinical sample matrices, as well as on various environmental surfaces in the laboratory and hospital. The present study demonstrates that SARS-CoV can survive in respiratory samples for 5 days at room temperature and for up to 3 weeks at 4ЊC. Our present data show that, at a high concentration of virus (10 6 TCID 50 / mL), SARS-CoV can survive for 4-5 days at room temperature in both respiratory and diarrheal stool samples.	./cache/cord-314025-h9gj814e.txt	./txt/cord-314025-h9gj814e.txt