Anal Swab as a Potentially Optimal Specimen for SARS-CoV-2 Detection to Evaluate Hospital Discharge of COVID-19 Patients

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Future Science Group policy on retractions (https://www.tandfonline.com/authorguide/editorialpolicies).

The following article has been retracted from Future Microbiology as it did not meet the ethical standards of the Journal, owing to a lack of informed consent obtained from the patients, prior to publication:

Mei Sun, Dong Guo, Jing Zhang, Jian Zhang, Hai-Feng Teng, Jun Xia, Peng Liu, Quan-Xu Ge, Ming-Yi Wang, 'Anal swab as a potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients' appearing in the August issue of Future Microbiol. 15(12), 1101–1107 (2020).

The authors and editors of Future Microbiology regret any negative consequences this publication might have caused in the scientific and medical communities.

Keywords::

• anal swab
• COVID-19
• RT-PCR
• SARS-CoV-2