SARS-CoV-2 in the peritoneal waste in a patient treated with peritoneal dialysis

Editor’s NoteWe hope this interesting case will motivate the nephrology community to look at our patients on peritoneal dialysis and consider testing their dialysate. We suggest that it will be of critical importance to go beyond polymerase chain reaction testing and actually attempt to culture the virus from the fluid. At this time it is not clear whether a positive polymerase chain reaction for SARS-CoV-2 means contagious virus is present.We...