Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in nasopharyngeal swabs after death

Affiliations

• ¹ Anatomic Pathology, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, Rome (RM) 00133 Italy; Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Via di Sant'Alessandro, 8, 00131 Rome, Italy.
• ² Forensic Medicine, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
• ³ Anatomic Pathology, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, Rome (RM) 00133 Italy.
• ⁴ Division of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Italy.
• ⁶ Anatomic Pathology, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, Rome (RM) 00133 Italy; Tor Vergata Oncoscience Research (TOR), University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].