[HTML][HTML] Molecular characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first case of COVID-19 in Italy

MR Capobianchi, M Rueca… - Clinical …, 2020 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
On January 29, 2020, two Chinese spouses (patient 1, female; patient 2, male), coming to
Italy as tourists from Hubei province, were hospitalized at the National Institute for Infectious
Diseases “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, with fever and respiratory symptoms. SARS-CoV-2
diagnosis was accomplished using real-time RT-PCR [1] on a nasopharyngeal swab and
sputum for patient 1 and on a nasopharyngeal swab for patient 2, collected 1 day after
symptom onset. Partial sequencing confirmed both patients to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 …