Isolation of 2019-nCoV from a Stool Specimen of a Laboratory-Confirmed Case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Abstract

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is spreading very fast in Hubei Province of China. As of February 14, 2020, 51,986 confirmed cases (including laboratory-confirmed cases and clinically-confirmed cases) were reported in Hubei Province, and 1,318 of them died. Respiratory droplets and contact transmission are considered to be the most important routes of transmission of 2019-nCoV, but do not fully account for the occurrence of all coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, previously known as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), and the reasons for the rapid spread of this virus (1).