A staff disinfects the wash basin on a high-speed train at Zhengzhou high-speed railway maintenance station in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Li An)
The existence of fecal-oral transmission still lacks sufficient evidence.
GUANGZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers said Thursday they had isolated a novel coronavirus strain from swab sample of an infected patient's feces.
The swab sample was provided by the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, said Dr. Zhao Jincun from the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University, at a press conference Thursday.
According to Zhao, the discovery confirmed that the patients' feces contained the live virus, though it still lacks sufficient evidence for the existence of fecal-oral transmission. ■
