• Takahiro Uechi, Shunsuke Nakamura, Ryo Takeshita, Kyoko Morino, Ren Mizuno, Yuki Nakagawa, Yuna Irifukuhama, Shiho Takada, Hideki Teruya, Naoto Mita, Tomoki Nakamori, and Hirohisa Kinoshita.
• Emergency and Critical Care Center Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety Yokohama Rosai Hospital Yokohama Japan.
• Acute Med Surg. 2020 Jan 1; 7 (1): e525.

BackgroundSeveral countries have imposed a mandatory 14-day period of quarantine on individuals arriving from countries considered high-risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. However, it is not clear how long asymptomatic patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can be an asymptomatic carrier.Case PresentationWe experienced a case of an asymptomatic female patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 with abnormal chest computed tomography findings. She did not develop a fever during hospitalized isolation. She remained reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction-positive for 24 days.ConclusionAn asymptomatic patient diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection remained reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction-positive for 24 days, although she was quarantined in an isolation hospital. This finding suggests that an asymptomatic patient diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection with abnormal chest computed tomography findings can be an asymptomatic carrier for more than 3 weeks.© 2020 The Authors. Acute Medicine & Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine.

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